Le Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 07:56:37PM +0200, tlaronde a écrit :
> As suggested by o...@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).
> 
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