On Feb 19 00:39, Irányossy Knoblauch Artúr wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Corinna Vinschen > <corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com> wrote: > > > Would you mind terribly to send a copyright assignment per > > https://cygwin.com/contrib.html? If you send it as PDF by mail it takes > > usually just a few days to be countersigned. > > OK, I will try my best. :-)
It's really simple, trust me :) > I could not find any information regarding what the names 'gtod' and > 'ntod' are supposed to mean, and their type names, hires_ms and > hires_ns, respectively, aren't conveying that 'ntod' is monotonic > while 'gtod' isn't. Yeah, right. Keep in mind that the original times.cc is from pre-2000 and hires.h is from 2002. Way back when, source comments were unnecessary because, as we all well know, source is self-documenting... These days, I think what we should do here is a) ignore the names and maybe even bulk-rename variables and types to something more speaking (rel_timer, abs_timer or whatever) b) add comments, comments, comments. > Also, as I have been writing this mail, I have noticed that there is > still a data race left in the prime() function, so I have made a patch > for that, too. Cool, thank you! Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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