Nick Kew wrote:
> Tony Houghton wrote:
>...
> But regardless of whether it's 'safe' amongst current devices,
> you're setting yourself up for a Y2K-family bug. Except it'll
> be a real one, not a storm-inna-teacup.
>
Hey, hey, don't go spouting off like one of those ignorant journalists!
I and a
Tony Houghton wrote:
> I'm writing a python program which reads input device events so it
> needs to know sizeof(struct timeval). By using the struct module I
> should be able to work out sizeof(long) from python, but I can't
> think of a way to measure non-fundamental types without including a
>
Tony Houghton wrote:
> I'm writing a python program which reads input device events so it needs
> to know sizeof(struct timeval). By using the struct module I should be
> able to work out sizeof(long) from python, but I can't think of a way to
> measure non-fundamental types without including a lit
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:-
>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
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Big and Blue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Big and Blue wrote:
> > Tony Houghton wrote:
> >>
> >> How safe would I be assuming that
> >> sizeof(struct timeval) == 2 * sizeof(long)
> >>
> >> is always true on Linux on different architectures?
> >
> >Based on what I wa
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Big and Blue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tony Houghton wrote:
>>
>> How safe would I be assuming that
>>
>> sizeof(struct timeval) == 2 * sizeof(long)
>>
>> is always true on Linux on different architectures?
>
> Based on what I was looking at today (well, yes
Big and Blue wrote:
> Tony Houghton wrote:
>>
>> How safe would I be assuming that
>> sizeof(struct timeval) == 2 * sizeof(long)
>>
>> is always true on Linux on different architectures?
>
>Based on what I was looking at today (well, yesterday now), you might
> be wrong.
Howev
Tony Houghton wrote:
>
> How safe would I be assuming that
>
> sizeof(struct timeval) == 2 * sizeof(long)
>
> is always true on Linux on different architectures?
Based on what I was looking at today (well, yesterday now), you might
be wrong.
I do know that the size of a struct u
