-------- In message <20121219221518.E1082_at_besplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes: >> With this format you can specify callouts 68 years into the future >> with quarter nanosecond resolution, and you can trivially and >> efficiently compare dur_t's with >> if (d1 < d2) > >This would make a better general format than timevals, timespecs and >of course bintimes :-). Except that for absolute timescales, we're running out of the 32 bits integer part. Bintimes is a necessary superset of the 32.32 which tries to work around the necessary but missing int96_t or int128_t[1]. Poul-Henning [1] A good addition to C would be a general multi-word integer type where you could ask for any int%d_t or uint%d_t you cared for, and have the compiler DTRT. In difference from using a multiword-library, this would still give these types their natural integer behaviour. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Wed Dec 19 2012 - 12:04:45 UTC
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