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From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Re:  ANSI C.
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Date: Sat, 18-Jan-86 11:34:35 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 18 11:34:35 1986
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> difftime() accepts time_t arguments but returns a double.

What's wrong with returning a long?

What's wrong with having a function:

long seconds(time)
time_t time;

Really much more generally useful, you know.

But, mainly, returning a double means loading in the floating point package.
On a lot of machines doing any floating point arithmetic in a program adds
quite a bit of overhead. Returning a long would be much more reasonable.
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