Re: G_MICROSEC

[Sebastian Wilhelmi <wilhelmi ira uka de>]

Hi Owen,

> While I'm complaining about bad function names, we have:
> 
> #define G_MICROSEC 1000000
> 
> Which is wrong, unless your units are picoseconds.

I simply copied it from Solaris /usr/include/sys/time.h and renamed it to
G_MICROSEC. In hindsight i agree, that it isn't a good idea.

> I'd suggest
> 
> #define G_MICROSECS_PER_SEC 1000000
> 
> or maybe
> 
> #define G_MILLION 1000000
> 
> or maybe just forget it. After all, I think 1e6 is a valid
> integer constant in C. (gcc accepts it anyways.)

Yea, I'll remove it.

Bye,
Sebastian

P.S.: I hope every Programmer out there knows, that micro is 1e-6.... ;-)
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