On Mon, 27 Oct 1997 16:47:56 +0100 (MET), Peter Gerwinski wrote:

According to Thomas Tan:

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Are you guys going to implement us_Timer field of TimeStamps soon?

If you tell us how to do that in a portable way - at once! ;-)

Well the proposal in the GPC docs also adds a TimerValid field, just set that to False if the system doesn't support gettimeofday(), which is already checked for in rts-time.c. gettimeofday() should be available for any system that supports BSD and/or glibc library calls. Other systems could provide their own calls in #ifdef blocks if they want the feature. I just don't see why 100% portability is important when you already have a field that tells the programmer if he can trust the results to be valid.

-Kevin -- Kevin A. Foss --- kfoss@mint.net --