Re: [Mingw-users] Small deviation in sys/timeb.h between VC++ and MinGW

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

John Brown wrote:
> 
> For what it is worth, the free Borland C++ 5.5 defines it as:
> 
> struct timeb {
>       long  time;
>       short millitm;
>       short timezone;
>       short dstflag;
>       };
> 

PLEASE!!!!  I can't emphasize enough, don't post directly from the .h
files.  I'll have to stop the posters who continue to do so.

Find the documentation on the web and post the pointers.

> i.e., the same as Mingw.
> 
> Perhaps someone ought to answer the question.
> 

I haven't come upon a definitive answer.  Unsigned short and short are
the same size so timeb will not have a problem.  Millitm is 1 second
represented in 1000ths.  999 is therefore the maximum millitm.  Short on
Win32 has a size of 2 bytes so SHORT_MAX == 32767.  I don't see a
problem with the current definition.

-- 
Earnie.

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