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Article #2190Re: Change to time() fn?
From: Peter Holzer
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 17:15
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 17:15
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flaps@csri.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes: >Well, time_t must be a type which can be cast to and from -1. So there's no >reason it couldn't be a struct __timeval, with a special case in the compiler, >right? [lots of special cases deleted] Why not just build an arithmetic type of the required precision into the compiler (if long or double do not have enough digits)? Not much more work and you can use it for other things, too (like GCC's long long). Peter -- | _ | Peter J. Holzer | Think of it | | |_|_) | Technical University Vienna | as evolution | | | | | Dept. for Real-Time Systems | in action! | | __/ | hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at | Tony Rand |
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Newsgroups: comp.std.c Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!email!hp From: hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer) Subject: Re: Change to time() fn? Message-ID: <1992Oct2.171518.9151@email.tuwien.ac.at> Sender: news@email.tuwien.ac.at Nntp-Posting-Host: quasi.vmars.tuwien.ac.at Organization: Technical University Vienna, Dept. for Realtime Systems, AUSTRIA References: <1992Sep29.154252.5453@ima.isc.com> <1992Sep15.042120.27559@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <1992Sep17.120636.29070@linus.mitre.org> <1992Sep26.153421.7698@cpio1.fr.mugnet.org> <1992Sep29.134807.21457@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 17:15:18 GMT Lines: 18