[Xenomai-core] Re: Time representation in RTDM profiles

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>]

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Sebastian Smolorz wrote:
> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Sebastian Smolorz wrote:
>>> The possibility of redefinition was not the main goal here. As you
>>> mentioned it would be problematic. No, I introduced nanosecs_abs_t and
>>> nanosecs_rel_t because they are more intuitive and more "speaking" to the
>>> programmer. The meaning of a variable of such a type is clear at first
>>> sight.
>> Yeah, sounds reasonable to me. Then let's move these typedefs to rtdm.h
>> and document them as self-explanatory defines of the underlying standard
>> types, freezing their width and signedness at the same time.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
>> Actually, this would be useful for the driver API of RTDM as well.
> 
> That's right. No objections from my side.
> 

Done.

Though I checked things more then twice, some regression may be hidden,
specifically as I changed the signedness of timeout parameters of a few
RTDM driver API functions. All documented under
ksrc/skins/rtdm/API.CHANGES, and everyone is warned now.

Jan


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