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Anoop Aryal · Guest

hi all,
i'm working on a project where it used time_t initially (from <ctime>). i
needed more precision so the natural choice was to use timeval structs.
then i faced the prospect of changing all code for doing subtraction etc to
deal with the timeval structs instead of the straight subtraction of
time_t.

then i figured, i could create a subclass of timeval like so:

class Timeval : public timeval {
public:
Timeval operator-(const Timeval& other);
/* etc... */
};

that way, i can use the standard C lib (eg. gettimeofday) all the while
using C++ syntax within my own project as it was written for time_t data
types (by providing all the operators in the Timeval class that were used
initially on the time_t data types).

are there any drawbacks of C++-a-fying the standard C structs? and if one
were to get some grandiose ideas, could this be used as a way to provide a
C++ wrapper to standard Unix C structs? (by subclassing the struct into a
class).

feedback much appreciated.

anoop aryal.

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Ron Natalie · Guest

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