[Bug manual/14450] timeval_subtract example is erroneous

[siddhesh at redhat dot com]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14450

Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com> 2012-12-11 03:11:17 UTC ---
Not really.  timeval is not simply tv_sec.tv_usec.  It is tv_sec + tv_usec /
1000000.  They have different semantics when tv_sec is negative.  So you read:

{-10, 999999}

as

-10 + 999999/1000000 = -9.000001

and not

-10.999999

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