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a weird problem with clock
- From: tangyan at ict dot ac dot cn
- To: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:34:26 +0800 (CST)
- Subject: a weird problem with clock
Hello, everyone. I have a weird problem with clock() in glibc and I have
tried my best to solve it myself but it still doesn't work.
My little program is as following:
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#include <time.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
int i, sum;
clock_t start, end;
start = clock();
for (i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
sum += i;
}
end = clock();
printf("start: %ld, end: %ld\n", start, end);
return 0;
}
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The problem is in my box the output is ALWAYS "start: 0, end: 0".
Environment:
$uname -a
=>
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Linux client135 2.4.20-8smp #1 SMP Thu Mar 13 17:45:54 EST 2003 i686 i686
i386 GNU/Linux
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OS: Redhat 9.0
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$cat /proc/cpuinfo
=>
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processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz
stepping : 9
cpu MHz : 2593.519
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm
bogomips : 5177.34
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$ gcc -v
=>
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Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/specs
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix
--disable-checking --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit
--host=i386-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)
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The output of `ldd' on the `test' generated by "gcc test.c -o test" is,
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libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x42000000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
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What's wrong with my little program?
I just do all the things exactly followed the `time & data' chapter in
glibc manual, but the output is always ZERO. The return value of clock()
is 0, so it seems no error (-1) occurs. But why it always return 0?
Thank you very much!
BHW: I have not subscribe this mailing list, so anyone having some idea
about this problem please replys directly to my mailbox, thanks.