26 Aug
2007
26 Aug
'07
11:34 a.m.
[ Sorry for the *extremely* slow response, but I'm currently working through my backlog of >6000 mails... :-P ] On Wednesday 16 May 2007 09:35, Tomasz Zielonka wrote:
I wonder why CTime is not Integral - maybe there is no such guarantee for time_t? If so, then you shouldn't rely on Enum. The safest bet seems to be toRational - CTime is Real.
The Single Unix Specification has the answer: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/basedefs/sys/types.h.html#tag_... "time_t and clock_t shall be integer or real-floating types." CTime's Enum instance is as debatable as the ones for Float and Double, but for consistency reasons we included it in the FFI spec. Cheers, S.