Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Patch 1/9] timestamp diff | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:12:43 -0500 |
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On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 20:05 -0500, Shailabh Nagar wrote: > On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 20:01, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 19:42 -0500, Shailabh Nagar wrote: > > > + ret->tv_sec = end->tv_sec - start->tv_sec; > > > + ret->tv_nsec = end->tv_nsec - start->tv_nsec; > > > > What if end->tv_nsec is less than start->tv_nsec? > > The caller of the func can decide what to do. > In our usage, we choose to not use the result of such a diff > but others may want to return an error etc.
You don't think it's a problem that 2.0000001s - 1.9999999s would return garbage rather than 0.0000002?
Lee
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