Re: [PATCH] LinuxPPS (with new syscalls API) - new version

Stephen Rothwell
2007-07-01T07:13:57Z

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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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