We want to add the capability to not only get the time but also set the time, but there's no "setter" for the "getter" time().
The first ones that come into mind are gettimeofday() and settimeofday(). However, they take a struct timezone argument that doesn't make sense - even the man pages says "The use of the timezone structure is obsolete; the tz argument should normally be specified as NULL." And POSIX says "Applications should use the clock_gettime() function instead of the obsolescent gettimeofday() function."
The ...timeofday() functions work with microseconds while the clock_...time() functions work with nanoseconds. Given that we expect our targets to support only 1/10 of seconds the microseconds look preferable at first sight. However, already microseconds require the cc65 data type 'long' so it's not such a relevant difference to nanoseconds. Additionally clock_getres() seems useful.
In order to avoid code duplication clock_gettime() takes over the role of the actual time getter from _systime(). So time() now calls clock_gettime() instead of _systime().
For some reason beyond my understanding _systime() was mentioned in time.h. _systime() worked exactly like e.g. _sysremove() and those _sys...() functions are all considered internal. The only reason I could see would be a performance gain of bypassing the time() wrapper. However, all known _systime() implementations internally called mktime(). And mktime() is implemented in C using an iterative algorithm so I really can't see what would be left to gain here. From that perspective I decided to just remove _systime().
The change matches the way that I/O register structures are defined in other headers. The names are defined as "struct", instead of as "pointer to struct".
So far conio.h included the target header to get the CH_... and COLOR_... macros. However tgi.h never did the same to get the TGI_COLOR_... macros. And some time ago the JOY_..._MASK macros moved from joystick.h into the target header yet joystick.h didn't include the target header.
Why wasn't that issue detected so far? Because about every program using TGI and/or the joystick uses CONIO too and therefore includes the target header that way.
However, conceptually it's clean to factor out the target header inclusion and have tgi.h and joystick.h do it like conio.h.
Apart from that user code may make direct use of target.h too.
As discussed in https://github.com/cc65/cc65/pull/452 after my premature merge the two functions in question don't work as expected.
Additionally I adjusted several style deviations in the pull request in question.