Re: kern/49207

["Kamil Rytarowski" <n54%gmx.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/49207; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Kamil Rytarowski" <n54%gmx.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
 netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, christos%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/49207
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 22:55:00 +0200

 Hello,
 
 Quick questions to make it clear:
 1. Just to be sure. Is the extraction of these constants from clock_subr.h a good idea?
 2. After changing the macro names to longer forms. Is it a good idea to add compatibility defines in clock_subr.h? This way:
 #define SECMIN SECONDS_PER_MINUTE
 3. Can I assume that with going back for the multiplication convention a user knows seconds per day (to be honest I never remembered it before :-) ). In other words, is the anti-16-bit-int campaign desired? Actually I believe that a good compiler will catch overflow immediately (clang, gcc).
 
 Thank you.
 
 With regards,