Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Jul 2007 21:27:55 +0200 | From | Rodolfo Giometti <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] LinuxPPS (with new syscalls API) - new version |
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On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 01:03:11PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > 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.
Which is the difference in using __u32 or uint32_t? Maybe is better defining the new struct as follow?
struct pps_timedata_s { uint32_t sec; uint32_t nsec; }
or as:
struct pps_timedata_s { __u32 sec; __u32 nsec; }
?
Thanks,
Rodolfo
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