gcc printf conversion specification for struct timeval

[PawelCarqowski]

Hallo group members,
Do You know any conversion specification for this. I imagine:

struct timeval time;
printf("%T\n", time);

regards,
Pawel

[santosh]

PawelCarqowski wrote:

Hallo group members,
Do You know any conversion specification for this. I imagine:

struct timeval time;
printf("%T\n", time);

struct timeval is a GNU C extension. There are no specific format
specifiers for this but since the structure members are of type long
int you can use the 'ld' format specifier for printing them.

For furher GNU C related questions please ask in a GNU group or in a
Linux group.

[Ian Collins]

santosh wrote:

PawelCarqowski wrote:

>Hallo group members,
Do You know any conversion specification for this. I imagine:

struct timeval time;
printf("%T\n", time);

struct timeval is a GNU C extension.

It's POSIX.

--
Ian Collins.

[santosh]

Ian Collins wrote:

santosh wrote:

>PawelCarqowski wrote:

>>Hallo group members,
Do You know any conversion specification for this. I imagine:

struct timeval time;
printf("%T\n", time);

struct timeval is a GNU C extension.

It's POSIX.

You're right, thanks.

[Duncan Muirhead]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:43:25 +0100, PawelCarqowski wrote:

Hallo group members,
Do You know any conversion specification for this. I imagine:

struct timeval time;
printf("%T\n", time);

regards,
Pawel

I use
printf( "%ld.%.6ld\n", time.tv_sec, time.tv_usec);
which produces output like
1194509197.415800

[Spoon]

santosh wrote:

struct timeval is a GNU C extension.

http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/0096...ys/time.h.html

The <sys/time.hheader shall define the timeval structure that
includes at least the following members:

time_t tv_sec Seconds.
suseconds_t tv_usec Microseconds.

The time_t and suseconds_t types shall be defined as described
in <sys/types.h>.

time_t and clock_t shall be integer or real-floating types.

The type suseconds_t shall be a signed integer type capable of
storing values at least in the range [-1, 1000000].

There are no specific format specifiers for this [...]

Right.

(However, glibc does allow custom conversion specifiers.)

http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/man...ng-Printf.html

but since the structure members are of type long int
you can use the 'ld' format specifier for printing them.

AFAIU, it is possible for time_t to be wider than long int, but
I'm not sure. Consider a platform where time_t is 64 bits wide
and long int is only 32 bits wide.

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or in a Linux group.

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[Spoon]

Duncan Muirhead wrote:

PawelCarqowski wrote:

>Do You know any conversion specification for this. I imagine:

struct timeval time;
printf("%T\n", time);

I use
printf( "%ld.%.6ld\n", time.tv_sec, time.tv_usec);
which produces output like
1194509197.415800

What does it print when tv_usec = 666? :-)

[James Kuyper]

Spoon wrote:
....

AFAIU, it is possible for time_t to be wider than long int, but
I'm not sure. Consider a platform where time_t is 64 bits wide
and long int is only 32 bits wide.

time_t can be any arithmetic type. It could even be _Imaginary; which
has some interesting :-) implications.