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      1 /*
      2 ** This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
      3 ** 1996-06-05 by Arthur David Olson.
      4 */
      5 
      6 /*LINTLIBRARY*/
      7 
      8 #include "private.h"	/* for time_t and TYPE_SIGNED */
      9 
     10 /* Return -X as a double.  Using this avoids casting to 'double'.  */
     11 static double
     12 dminus(double x)
     13 {
     14   return -x;
     15 }
     16 
     17 double ATTRIBUTE_CONST
     18 difftime(time_t time1, time_t time0)
     19 {
     20 	/*
     21 	** If double is large enough, simply convert and subtract
     22 	** (assuming that the larger type has more precision).
     23 	*/
     24 	if (sizeof (time_t) < sizeof (double)) {
     25 	  double t1 = time1, t0 = time0;
     26 	  return t1 - t0;
     27 	}
     28 
     29 	/*
     30 	** The difference of two unsigned values can't overflow
     31 	** if the minuend is greater than or equal to the subtrahend.
     32 	*/
     33 	if (!TYPE_SIGNED(time_t))
     34 	  return time0 <= time1 ? time1 - time0 : dminus(time0 - time1);
     35 
     36 	/* Use uintmax_t if wide enough.  */
     37 	if (sizeof (time_t) <= sizeof (uintmax_t)) {
     38 	  uintmax_t t1 = time1, t0 = time0;
     39 	  return time0 <= time1 ? t1 - t0 : dminus(t0 - t1);
     40 	}
     41 
     42 	/*
     43 	** Handle cases where both time1 and time0 have the same sign
     44 	** (meaning that their difference cannot overflow).
     45 	*/
     46 	if ((time1 < 0) == (time0 < 0))
     47 	  return time1 - time0;
     48 
     49 	/*
     50 	** The values have opposite signs and uintmax_t is too narrow.
     51 	** This suffers from double rounding; attempt to lessen that
     52 	** by using long double temporaries.
     53 	*/
     54 	{
     55 	  long double t1 = time1, t0 = time0;
     56 	  return t1 - t0;
     57 	}
     58 }
     59