Re: [Emc-developers] on the integer question by Rene

[Robert S. <rm...@un...>]

Am Montag, dem 08.06.2026 um 09:07 +0800 schrieb Luca Toniolo:
> On the counter point specifically: the clean wrap is exactly a
> property 
> the standards keep by keeping integer types. hal_extend_counter() 
> reconstructs an integer count with modular arithmetic, no lost
> counts. A 
> double can't do that; past 2^53 it degrades and the low bits are
> gone, 
> and a getter/setter warning can flag it but can't recover them. So if
> a 
> count becomes a double pin, we lose the clean wrap that integers give
> us 
> for free.

counters could also be made to wrap at 2^53.