New config feature - time1 can declare GPS wraparound compensation

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Fred!

On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 15:00:40 -0700 (PDT)
Fred Wright via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

> > Huh. If "long double" isn't 16 bytes, we're foing to have a
> > problem.  
> 
> There's no guarantee that long double differs from double.  Anything
> that depends on it to do so is nonportable.
> 
> That can't be the issue here, anyway, since overflow couldn't have 
> happened after converting to floating-point.

Yes, but the loss of precision will be more than a second, not good for
NTP.

RGDS
GARY
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