Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Oct 2002 05:32:08 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: The return of the return of crunch time (2.5 merge candidate list 1.6) |
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> > C) How would having ALL times rounded to a second be an improvement? > > foo.c and foo.o would both have timestamps of 0. make considers > the target foo.o newer in this case, so will not rebuild it.
But other stuff could break because it sees mtime > gettimeofday (strictly make could trigger a "your clock is warping" warning)
It's a tradeoff, all has some disadvantages. The simple truncation wins here because it's the simplest (KISS)
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