Re: Status of the win32 gettimeofday module

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> The main idea here is that we should try to avoid separate include
> files like "gettimeofday.h" for declarations that POSIX says should be
> in a standard file like <sys/time.h>.  Instead, we should patch
> <sys/time.h> by wrapping it; that way the user code can just code to
> the POSIX standard.

Yes, I agree this is better. I merely wanted to integrate and clean up
Martin Lambers' patch.

>       * lib/nanosleep.c: Don't worry about TIME_WITH_SYS_TIME; no longer
>       needed.
>       * lib/strftime.c: Likewise.
>       * lib/timespec.h: Likewise.

Good; the last platform I saw that had incompatible <time.h> and
<sys/time.h> was Sun386 with SunOS 4.0.x, in 1991/1992. Shouldn't the
AC_HEADER_TIME macro now be marked obsolescent in the autoconf manual,
like the AC_STRUCT_TM macro already is?

Bruno