Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [I sent this message a few weeks ago, but it was > mistakenly MIME-format=flowed, so not very readable]
Odd, I sent a reply (only to bug-gnulib), but I see it's not archived so I guess it didn't get through the spam filters. Here it is again. ===== POSIX originally made tv_nsec 'long int' because 'int' might have been 16 bits. Nowadays, though, 'int' is guaranteed to be at least 32 bits (both by POSIX and by the GNU coding standards), so it's OK nowadays to use 'int' to store a tv_nsec number. I thought it a bit nicer to celebrate the fact that we don't have to worry about 16-bit hosts, and to use plain 'int' here. It's not a big deal either way, though, and if there's a problem with using 'int' we can change it to 'long int'. _______________________________________________ bug-gnulib mailing list bug-gnulib@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnulib
