[PATCH v3 3/3] system_data_types.7: note struct timespec::tv_nsec type for x32 and portability

Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) alx.manpages@gmail.com
Tue Dec 7 01:34:46 GMT 2021


On 12/7/21 02:08, наб wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 01:38:34AM +0100, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
>> On 12/7/21 00:31, наб wrote:
>>> For my own curiosity: which preposition would you use in Spanish here?
>> I would say "en" (which normally translates to "in" in English).
>>
>> Under some circumstances I might use "con" ("with" in English), but it would
>> be rarer.
> Huh! That's neat, I wouldn't've expected it!
> 
>>> Eeeeh, not really? That's functionally identical but, like,
>>> very verbose for no good reason.
>> Are those defined to actual values?  Or are they defined just empty?
>> I thought they were empty (but have never used those macros, so don't know
>> at all), in which case it would matter:
> They're either undefined (=> 0) or defined to a truthy value
> (1, realistically, but you see versions in some other APIs).
> It'd also be logically valid to define them to 0,
> but this is rare because people do define-checks.
> 
> A "default" -D macro, like all features are, is 1,

Huh, I didn't expect that.  Good to know it.
You can see that I don't use them a lot :)

So, nothing else to add to the patch; LGTM.  I'll leave up to you to 
decide if Notes or Bugs, and will wait also until tomorrow to merge it 
to see if someone has anything to add.

Thanks a lot!

Kind regards,
Alex


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