Unix Programming - size of suseconds

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size of suseconds_t

edware

2006-04-27, 7:56 am

I'm having some problems with gettimeofday() and suseconds_t.
It seems like that the microseconds counter is overflowing
when I call gettimeofday() repeatedly. And it doesn't seem
so strange, because sizeof(suseconds_t) yields 4. Isn't 4 bytes
too few to store the number of microseconds since the Epoch?

So my question is why it's only 4 bytes.