On 2026/03/01 10:31, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> The type must change.  Since it can become a 64-bit variable on 32-bit
> architectures, modifications to the variable must be carefully checked
> for atomicity problems.

(this is what I was getting at with "I don't know if there are other
reason to keep as uint" but was juggling too much to write it out
properly ;)