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Re: PATCH [3/n]: Add __snseconds_t and __SNSECONDS_T_TYPE
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> On 03/15/2012 01:57 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> What is the real consequence of using long long on tv_nsec,
>> except for not POSIX compliant? Will it lead to wrong code?
>
> It would break applications that do anything like this:
>
> ?struct timespec t;
> ?long *p = &t->tv_nsec;
>
> Such applications work fine now and conform to POSIX, but would
GCC will complain about "incompatible pointer type".
> either not compile or (worse) might compile and do the
> wrong thing, if tv_nsec were wider than 'long'.
We had a discussion on Linux kernel mailing list:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/8/408
We thought it was OK to have long long on tv_nsec.
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H.J.