Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 13:40:45 +0300 From: Valentin Nechayev <netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua> To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: time_t definition is worng Message-ID: <20010603134044.A1343@iv.nn.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <200106012318.f51NI8w38590@bunrab.catwhisker.org>; from david@catwhisker.org on Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 04:18:08PM -0700 References: <200106012300.f51N0VT90830@earth.backplane.com> <200106012318.f51NI8w38590@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
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Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 16:18:08, david (David Wolfskill) wrote about "Re: time_t definition is worng": > > Historically people compared time stamps by subtracting one from > > another. > Which is a practice that the difftime() function was invented to > replace. difftime is for ANSI compatilibity but not for UNIX. It returns double. There is no reason to attract float-point calculations without explicit need... /netch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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