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+/* Return the difference between two timestamps. */
+
+/*
+** This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
+** 1996-06-05 by Arthur David Olson.
+*/
+
+/*LINTLIBRARY*/
+
+#include "private.h" /* for time_t and TYPE_SIGNED */
+
+/* Return -X as a double. Using this avoids casting to 'double'. */
+static double
+dminus(double x)
+{
+ return -x;
+}
+
+double
+difftime(time_t time1, time_t time0)
+{
+ /*
+ ** If double is large enough, simply convert and subtract
+ ** (assuming that the larger type has more precision).
+ */
+ if (sizeof(time_t) < sizeof(double)) {
+ double t1 = time1, t0 = time0;
+ return t1 - t0;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ ** The difference of two unsigned values can't overflow
+ ** if the minuend is greater than or equal to the subtrahend.
+ */
+ if (!TYPE_SIGNED(time_t))
+ return time0 <= time1 ? time1 - time0 : dminus(time0 - time1);
+
+ /* Use uintmax_t if wide enough. */
+ if (sizeof(time_t) <= sizeof(uintmax_t)) {
+ uintmax_t t1 = time1, t0 = time0;
+ return time0 <= time1 ? t1 - t0 : dminus(t0 - t1);
+ }
+
+ /*
+ ** Handle cases where both time1 and time0 have the same sign
+ ** (meaning that their difference cannot overflow).
+ */
+ if ((time1 < 0) == (time0 < 0))
+ return time1 - time0;
+
+ /*
+ ** The values have opposite signs and uintmax_t is too narrow.
+ ** This suffers from double rounding; attempt to lessen that
+ ** by using long double temporaries.
+ */
+ {
+ long double t1 = time1, t0 = time0;
+ return t1 - t0;
+ }
+}