surely you can shift a 64 bit long? On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 6:04 PM wrote: > Le Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 07:56:37PM +0200, tlaronde a écrit : > > As suggested by ori@eigenstate.org, I have used gettimeofday(2) to > > achieve what I needed. > > > > But I had to change suseconds_t (in POSIX) to long (in Plan9 > > ape/include/sys/time.h). > > > > But are all the compilers in Plan9 making long an octabytes, whatever > > the arch and the machine? Because a long, if it is a tetra, will never > > hold the value... > > I misread: the microseconds are for the fractional part. I was still > focusing on nsec() and taking the one for the other. > > But the following still holds: > > > > > Furthermore, for portability, there should be a typedef associating > > suseconds_t to long (or vlong, if long is not guaranteed to be an > > octa). > > > -- > Thierry Laronde > http://www.kergis.com/ > http://kertex.kergis.com/ > http://www.sbfa.fr/ > Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T232b7176352c012b-Mf1f6b24803e829b411b0691d Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription