From: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Add C2X timespec_getres
Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 19:54:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2105171953550.2011384@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8722784d-38e5-937e-60e2-e42f91070c63@cs.ucla.edu>
On Thu, 13 May 2021, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 5/13/21 4:54 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> > The handling of 64-bit time
> > follows that in timespec_get; people maintaining patch series for
> > 64-bit time will need to update them accordingly (to export
> > __timespec_getres64, redirect calls in time.h and run the test for
> > _TIME_BITS=64).
>
> Would it be simpler if new time_t-related APIs support only 64-bit time_t?
No. It would be more complicated to have a mixture of APIs that are
supported unconditionally and APIs that are only supported for
_TIME_BITS=64 and on architectures where time_t defaults to 64-bit.
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-17 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-13 23:54 Joseph Myers
2021-05-14 6:32 ` Paul Eggert
2021-05-14 11:52 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-05-17 19:54 ` Joseph Myers [this message]
2021-05-14 12:06 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-05-17 20:56 ` Joseph Myers
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