sizeof(struct timeval)

[Big and Blue]

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.

    However, it looks as though I was wrong:

linux/time.h:
  struct timeval {
          time_t          tv_sec;         /* seconds */
          suseconds_t     tv_usec;        /* microseconds */
  };

time.h:
  typedef __time_t time_t;

sys/time.h:
  typedef __suseconds_t suseconds_t;

bits/types.h:
  __STD_TYPE __TIME_T_TYPE __time_t;      /* Seconds since the Epoch.  */
  ...
  __STD_TYPE __SUSECONDS_T_TYPE __suseconds_t; /* Signed count of microseconds */


bits/typesizes.h:
  #define __TIME_T_TYPE           __SLONGWORD_TYPE
  ...
  #define __SUSECONDS_T_TYPE      __SLONGWORD_TYPE

bits/types.h:
  #define __SLONGWORD_TYPE        long int



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