From: Tim Updegrove Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: uclock failure at midnight Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 16:14:39 -0400 Organization: Lucent Technologies Lines: 74 Message-ID: <3947E7AF.CD507F30@lucent.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: pai830tupdegrove.micro.lucent.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com I'm running v2.03. The failure only occurs when booting directly to MS-DOS (it doesn't fail in a dos box under Win98SE). Here is small test case. Use the "time" command to set the time 15 seconds or so before midnight and run the test. ===================================== #include #include int delay_clock(unsigned long max_ticks); int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int status; unsigned i; for (i=0; i< 20*1000;i++) { //20 sec status = delay_clock(1000); if (status != 0) { printf("Error: delay_clock has failed\n"); exit(1); } // error } //for return 0; } // main int delay_clock(unsigned long max_ticks) { unsigned long int diff_time; uclock_t starttime, endtime; starttime = uclock(); endtime = starttime; diff_time = (unsigned long int) (endtime - starttime); while ( diff_time < max_ticks) { endtime = uclock(); diff_time = (unsigned long int) (endtime - starttime); if ((diff_time & 0x80000000) == 0x80000000) { printf("Error: uclock timer has overflowed.\n"); printf(" starttime=%08lx, endtime=%08lx, diff_time=%08lx\n", (unsigned long int) starttime, (unsigned long int) endtime, diff_time); exit(1); } // crazy timer } /* while delay */ return 0; } /* delay_clock */ ================== Eli Zaretskii wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Tim Updegrove wrote: > > > My program runs 12 seconds but if it tries to run through midnight then > > it fails because a uclock() value after midnight is less than a uclock() > > value before midnight. > > `uclock' is written to handle the midnight case, so it should work. > Please post the shortest test program that can be used to reproduce > the problem. > > What version of DJGPP is this, btw? If it's 2.02, please upgrade to > v2.03 where `uclock' is more reliable on Windows. > > Are you running this on DOS or on Windows?