On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:-
<snip>
>In any case, it does imply that timeval can be relied on to be 2 *
>32-bits (2 * long) in 32-bit architectures and something else in 64-bit
>architectures - where long is 64-bit.
Using the source below for a quick test on both a 32 and 64 bit SUSE
system[0], I get a size of 8 bytes on the 32 bit system, which implies 2
* 32 bit, and 16 ( 2 * 64 bit) on the 64 bit system.
<Source>
/*
quick, boring, and probably could do with a major cleanup
but it should be fine
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
int main(void)
{
int the_size=sizeof(struct timeval);
printf("%u\n", the_size);
exit(0);
}
</Source>
[0] see .sig for details.
Regards,
David Bolt
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