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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Cc: bartv@ecoscentric.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: minor doc fix
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:08:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ur69bnqbq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080730184902.GA25746@caradoc.them.org>

> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:49:02 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: Bart Veer <bartv@ecoscentric.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
>    `long' and `unsigned long' are implemented as 64 bit types.

How do you mean ``implemented''?  These are primitive C data types, so
the compiler implements them and we cannot change that.

> Then in struct timeval:
> 
>      struct timeval {
>          time_t tv_sec;  /* second */
>          long   tv_usec; /* microsecond */
>      };

Is this a declaration that is compiled?  If so, it uses the primitive
data types defined by the compiler.

Again, what am I missing here?


  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-30 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-30 15:55 Bart Veer
2008-07-30 17:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-07-30 18:17   ` Bart Veer
2008-07-30 18:34     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-07-30 18:49       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-07-30 19:08         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-07-30 19:15           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-07-30 20:28       ` Bart Veer

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