/* difftime( time_t, time_t ) This file is part of the Public Domain C Library (PDCLib). Permission is granted to use, modify, and / or redistribute at will. */ #include #ifndef REGTEST double difftime( time_t time1, time_t time0 ) { /* If we want to avoid rounding errors and overflows, we need to be careful with the exact type of time_t being unknown to us. The code below is based on tzcode's difftime.c, which is in the public domain, so clarified as of 1996-06-05 by Arthur David Olson. */ /* If double is large enough, simply covert and substract (assuming that the larger type has more precision). */ if ( sizeof( time_t ) < sizeof( double ) ) { return (double)time1 - (double)time0; } /* The difference of two unsigned values cannot overflow if the minuend is greater or equal to the subtrahend. */ if ( ! _PDCLIB_TYPE_SIGNED( time_t ) ) { return ( time1 >= time0 ) ? (double)( time1 - time0 ) : -(double)( time0 - time1 ); } /* Use uintmax_t if wide enough. */ if ( sizeof( time_t ) <= sizeof( _PDCLIB_uintmax_t ) ) { _PDCLIB_uintmax_t t1 = time1, t0 = time0; return ( time1 >= time0 ) ? t1 - t0 : -(double)( t0 - t1 ); } /* If both times have the same sign, their difference cannot overflow. */ if ( ( time1 < 0 ) == ( time0 < 0 ) ) { return time1 - time0; } /* The times have opposite signs, and uintmax_t is too narrow. This suffers from double rounding; attempt to lessen that by using long double temporaries. */ long double t1 = time1, t0 = time0; return t1 - t0; } #endif #ifdef TEST #include "_PDCLIB_test.h" int main( void ) { TESTCASE( NO_TESTDRIVER ); return TEST_RESULTS; } #endif