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Re: [PATCH] gold: save file mtime in .gnu_incremental_inputs
Mikolaj Zalewski <mikolajz@google.com> writes:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Ian Lance Taylor<iant@google.com> wrote:
>> Mikolaj Zalewski <mikolajz@google.com> writes:
>>> Â I'm not know too much portability - is st_mtim generic enough so
>>> that I can use it, or does it require a configure check? I've also
>>> fixed some members references without this-> that I let slip in the
>>> previous patch.
>>
>> st_mtim is not portable, and not very many systems support it. Âst_mtime
>> is portable.
> st_mtime doesn't give information about nanoseconds part. Can I just
> ignore it for now?
For now, sure. Eventually we do should indeed do a configure test for
it. One-second resolution is not sufficiently precise on a modern
system.
Ian