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On Wed, 27 Jan 2016, Josh Triplett wrote:
> With the dynamic allocation removed, this seems sensible to me.  One
> minor nit: s/int32_t/uint32_t/g, since a location intended to hold a CPU
> number should never need to hold a negative number.

You try to block the future of computing: https://lwn.net/Articles/638673/