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Re: gettimeofday macro (was Re: A macro to check for data type alignment
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Kevin Ryde |
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Re: gettimeofday macro (was Re: A macro to check for data type alignment) |
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Fri, 15 Feb 2002 06:52:37 +1000 |
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Peter Eisentraut <address@hidden> writes:
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> * On old BSD systems, gettimeofday(a, b) returned the time in a and the
> time zone in b.
Is NULL permitted for the timezone, if you don't want that?
> * On old SVr4 systems, gettimeofday(a) returned the time. (You get the
> time zone some other way.)
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> * On most modern systems (including, e.g., glibc/Linux and FreeBSD), the
> prototype is gettimeofday(a, b), but b is simply ignored.
Those notes might be good for the Function Portability section of the
manual.