Re: minor doc fix

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 09:34:07PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:17:02 +0100
> > From: Bart Veer <bartv@ecoscentric.com>
> > CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> > 
> > The text is not talking about host-side or target-side data
> > structures. It is describing a protocol, what gets transferred between
> > host and target for a gettimeofday request, which happens to be 12
> > bytes and not 8.
> 
> Sorry, you lost me.  Perhaps I'm confused, but `long' takes 8 bytes
> only on 64-bit Unix machines.  Otherwise it's 4 bytes.  What am I
> missing?

The answer's even in the manual! :-)

In Protocol-specific Representation of Datatypes, see Integral
Datatypes:

   `long' and `unsigned long' are implemented as 64 bit types.

Then in struct timeval:

     struct timeval {
         time_t tv_sec;  /* second */
         long   tv_usec; /* microsecond */
     };

     The integral datatypes conform to the definitions given in the
  appropriate section (see *note Integral Datatypes::, for details) so
  this structure is of size 8 bytes.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
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