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Re: timersub is incorrect for small values
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Re: timersub is incorrect for small values |
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Sat, 29 Dec 2001 00:02:01 +0100 (CET) |
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
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> > timersub is incorrect for small values, defined in sys/time.h
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> > i.e. 0.001000 - 0.001800 give -1.999200, which is not what my
> > calculator sais.
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> But 0.0010 is greater than 0.0018 - timersub expects that the
> arguments are ordered.
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Yep, I figured that out already. But I couldn't find it in any man page at
first so I got a little bit stuck with it.
Maybe an idea to include the ordering comment in the header file?
Jurriaan