Re: [PATCH v7 0/3] y2038: Linux: Introduce __clock_settime64 function

[Alistair Francis <alistair23@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 10:25 AM Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2019, Alistair Francis wrote:
>
> > +#include <endian.h>
> >
> >  /* POSIX.1b structure for a time value.  This is like a `struct timeval' but
> >     has nanoseconds instead of microseconds.  */
> >  struct timespec
> >  {
> >    __time_t tv_sec;             /* Seconds.  */
> > +#if __WORDSIZE == 64 \
> > +  || (defined __SYSCALL_WORDSIZE && __SYSCALL_WORDSIZE == 64)
> >    __syscall_slong_t tv_nsec;   /* Nanoseconds.  */
> > +#else
> > +# if BYTE_ORDER == BIG_ENDIAN
> > +  __int32_t tv_pad;           /* Padding */
> > +  __syscall_slong_t tv_nsec;  /* Nanoseconds */
> > +# else
> > +  __int32_t tv_nsec;          /* Nanoseconds */
> > +  __syscall_slong_t tv_pad;   /* Padding */
> > +# endif
> > +#endif
>
> The padding must be an *unnamed bit-field* so that { tv_sec, tv_nsec }
> initializers (common in practice even if not officially supported by the
> standards) continue to work.  Also, I think you should just use "long int"
> for tv_nsec in the case where there is padding, as the standard-defined
> type (and then the padding can be "int: 32", so avoiding any dependence on
> whether compilers support non-int bit-fields).  Certainly the choice of
> types for tv_nsec and padding should not depend on the endianness (the
> patch above is using __int32_t for the first field and __syscall_slong_t
> for the second, regardless of which is tv_nsec and which is padding).

Ok, I have fixed this up.

>
> There are namespace issues when changing installed headers.  You can't use
> macros such as BYTE_ORDER or BIG_ENDIAN because they aren't in the
> standard-reserved namespaces.
>
> Unfortunately the definitions of __LITTLE_ENDIAN and __BIG_ENDIAN are in
> <endian.h> (__BYTE_ORDER is in the architecture-specific <bits/endian.h>),
> and while the non-reserved names therein are all conditional on
> __USE_MISC, I don't think we really want to start exporting them from
> every header that uses struct timespec.  My inclination would be to have a
> separate bits/ header that only defines the __LITTLE_ENDIAN / __BIG_ENDIAN
> / __PDP_ENDIAN macros (or that defines those and includes the
> architecture-specific header for __BYTE_ORDER), so that other headers can
> test endianness without bringing in all the other __USE_MISC
> endian-related macros from <endian.h>, but Zack might advise on how such
> changes would fit into his header cleanups.

I think I understand what you mean, but it seems strange. I'm going to
send an RFC patch and we can discuss there.

Alistair

>
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