lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2007]   [Jul]   [1]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
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.

--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
[unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature]
\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2007-07-01 09:17    [W:0.157 / U:1.000 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site