elapsedtimer behaves erratic under windows

We use the elapsed method from QElapsedTimer to replay files at the correct pace.
We have now compiled Qt4.8.0 and are testing our code with it. (it worked nicely under 4.7.x)
Now we noticed that the elapsed() method goes haywire after a few seconds, instead of nicely increasing we see the value behave rather heretic.

Our investigation suggests that the code in "ticksToNanoseconds(qint64 ticks)" in QtSources/4.8.0/src/corelib/tools/qelapsedtimer_win.cpp is the problem.

Our counterFrequency is set to 2.99 GHz but this way the elapsed() method will first try to convert the elapsed time into nanoseconds and divide aftwerwards by 1000000, so the qint64 returned by the ticksToNanoseconds method is calculated as
return ticks * 1000000000 / counterFrequency;
and this causes our problem

we replaced the code with
static inline qint64 ticksToNanoseconds(qint64 ticks)
{
if (counterFrequency > 0)

{ quint64 secs = ticks/counterFrequency; quint64 nano = ((ticks%counterFrequency) * 1000000000) / counterFrequency; // QueryPerformanceCounter uses an arbitrary frequency return (secs * 1000000000) + nano; }

else

{ // GetTickCount(64) return milliseconds return ticks * 1000000; }

}

this will solve our problems until we have a counterfrequency that reaches 16GHz...