Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 18:35:22 +0200 From: Bernd Luevelsmeyer <bdluevel@heitec.net> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/30297: CLOCKS_PER_SEC non-standard Message-ID: <20010905163522.66598B8101@christel.heitec.net> References: <20010906011650.T24132-100000@alphplex.bde.org>
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Bruce Evans wrote: [...] > More because it would break binary compatibilty. I wanted to change > CLOCKS_PER_SEC to 1 million many years ago (clocks.7 says a little > about this), but didn't want to face the binary compatibilty issues. > clock_t would have to be int64_t or uint64_t... That's worse than I thought; in fact I didn't consider that with 1000000 units per second and 32 bits to count you get only 0.05 days, a little more than one hour. That's of course impossible, but widening clock_t to 64 bits is also stupid if it's done just for the conformance, without helping the resolution at all. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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