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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] LinuxPPS (with new syscalls API) - new version
    On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 19:13:40 +0200 Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com> wrote:
    >
    > Maybe I can define a special struct for exchanging time data as:
    >
    > struct pps_timedata_s {
    > long sec;
    > long nsec;
    > }
    >
    > and managing time data conversions at userland...
    >
    > What do you think about that? :)

    "long" is one of the datatypes that changes size between 32 bit and 64
    bit, so not such a good choice. You could use __u32 or __64 (or
    whatever), that makes it very clear that these are fixed size data types.

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    Cheers,
    Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au
    http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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