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Message-Id: <1183291392.2828.17.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:03:11 +0100
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@...eenne.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] LinuxPPS (with new syscalls API) - new version
On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 19:13 +0200, Rodolfo Giometti wrote:
> Maybe I can define a special struct for exchanging time data as:
>
> struct pps_timedata_s {
> long sec;
> long nsec;
> }
Seems reasonable enough in principle -- but whatever you do, don't use
"long" for it. That would definitely need different behaviour for 32-bit
vs. 64-bit. Use explicitly sized types such as uint32_t or uint64_t.
--
dwmw2
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