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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 09:39:17 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: uclock_t & gcc 3.0.4 on Windows-2000
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On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Alex Vinokur wrote:

> | I can suggest two possible explanations:
> |
> |   - the C++ library has a bug when printing long long variables via
> |     cout (did you try an equivalent C program?);
> 
> 
> An equivalent C program usually generates  the same result (sometimes it works OK).

Which leaves us with the other alternative:

> |   - uclock tries to reprogram the system timer chip, but Windows 2000,
> |     being of the NT family, doesn't let you do so.

This doesn't really surprise me: reprogramming the timer on a 
multi-programming OS is something that needs a lot of support in the DOS 
emulator, since the OS cannot let you reprogram the _real_ timer.  And 
the DOS emulator of the NT family is known as one that implements only 
the bare minimum.  Programming the SVGA registers doesn't work for the 
same reason.