From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12430: Glitches caused by addition of psec to timers Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:48:48 -0700 Message-ID: <50522A90.2080208@cs.ucla.edu> References: <50517770.6080207@cs.ucla.edu> <83wqzxvp0x.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1347562156 5852 80.91.229.3 (13 Sep 2012 18:49:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:49:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 12430@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 13 20:49:19 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TCETV-0006y1-MR for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:49:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45809 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TCETS-0005Gb-2F for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:49:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33287) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TCETP-0005GU-GK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:49:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TCETO-0005te-LF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:49:11 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:50939) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TCETO-0005tZ-Hu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:49:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TCEUE-00077u-Db for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:50:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Paul Eggert Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:50:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12430 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 12430-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12430.134756218627367 (code B ref 12430); Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:50:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12430) by debbugs.gnu.org; 13 Sep 2012 18:49:46 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60485 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TCETy-00077M-0c for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:49:46 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:34057) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TCETv-00077E-40 for 12430@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:49:44 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5775139E8008; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:48:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id dcfSxA4RlX5L; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:48:49 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from penguin.cs.ucla.edu (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0DBCD39E8007; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:48:49 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120828 Thunderbird/15.0 In-Reply-To: <83wqzxvp0x.fsf@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:64248 Archived-At: On 09/13/2012 09:57 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Wouldn't it be better to leave timers at their previous size of 8, and > instead allow the usecs element be a floating-point number? That could introduce off-by-one errors due to rounding issues. We could have the usecs element be a list, though. That is, (USECS PSECS) would stand for the sum of USECS microseconds and PSECS picoseconds, whereas a plain USECS would be treated as a microseconds count, as before.