Re: gettimeofday

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From: Stephen Baynes
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 08:44

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D. Moylan (dmoylan@upsdev) wrote:
: I'm having trouble with the C function gettimeofday in a 2M executable file.
<snip>

: I'm not wedded to gettimeofday if there is a function which can give me a wall
: time with precision in microseconds.

gettimeofday is not an ANSI C function (nor is it POSIX or XOPEN as far as I
know).

The only way you might get access to subsecond resolution in ANSI C is with 
difftime but there are no guarentees.

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Stephen Baynes                              baynes@mulsoc2.serigate.philips.nl
Philips Semiconductors Ltd
Southampton                                 My views are my own.
United Kingdom

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