----- Forwarded message from James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Subject: Bug#155100: glibc-doc: misleading definition of struct timeval from <sys/time.h> Reply-To: James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-From: James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Original-Sender: James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resent-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-CC: Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 12:33:06 GMT Resent-Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Debian-PR-Message: report 155100 X-Debian-PR-Package: glibc-doc X-Debian-PR-Keywords: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail-Copies-To: never From: James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resent-Sender: Debian BTS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.5 required=5.0 tests=SENT_BY_BTS,FORGED_RCVD_FOUND version=2.20 X-Spam-Level:
Package: glibc-doc Version: 2.2.5-6 glibc's docs say: | - Data Type: struct timeval | The `struct timeval' structure represents an elapsed time. It is | declared in `sys/time.h' and has the following members: | | `long int tv_sec' | This represents the number of whole seconds of elapsed time. | | `long int tv_usec' | This is the rest of the elapsed time (a fraction of a second), | represented as the number of microseconds. It is always less | than one million. but... SuS says: | The <sys/time.h> header shall define the timeval structure that | includes at least the following members: | | time_t tv_sec Seconds. | suseconds_t tv_usec Microseconds. and: | The type suseconds_t shall be a signed integer type capable of storing | values at least in the range [-1, 1000000]. [Option End] and indeed sparc uses 'int' not 'long' for tv_usec. Assuming Sparc's include files aren't buggy, the documention should probably be fixed? I'm not just reporting this to be pedantic, at least two -Werror using packages have failed to build from source on sparc because they try to format tv_usec with %ld. -- James ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
