bug#11825: 24.1.50; float-time no longer accepts negative time values

[Andreas Schwab]

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> On 07/07/2012 07:57 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> are you saying that a time difference can
>> never be negative on such platforms?
>
> Yes, that's right.

That doesn't make sense.  A difference between two timestamps is always
signed.

>> What about the case tv_sec = 0
>> in both time values and tv_nsec difference is negative?
>
> In that case, timespec_sub returns the
> minimum possible time value, namely zero,
> since time_t is unsigned.

Which just means that timespec_sub is completely broken.  It must not
use struct timespec for its return value.

Andreas.

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