Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:09:57 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Anton Helm <tony AT nt DOT tuwien DOT ac DOT at>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: strange behavior of difftime()
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On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Anton Helm wrote:

> From the above quote I would assume that there is no restriction on
> time0 and time1, especially the standard doesn't assume that time1 > time0.
> 
> Why does difftime() from the DJGPP library produce erronous results
> if time0 > time1 ??????

It's a bug.  I already fell into this same trap when I was porting GNU
`tar'.  DJGPP v2.02 will have this corrected.  A patched version
should be available from Tom Demmer's libc site.