GCC G77 Sleep Intrinsic

[Lars Steinke]

At 15:03 12.12.03 +0000, you wrote:
>Sorry to re-post on top of my previous one, but I've had another thought 
>(on a Friday as well !).
>Given that the problem has shown on Win 98 SE, but seems okay on Win XP & 
>2K:   Maybe the clock 'tick' used in the Win 9x API is different to that 
>used in the Win NT API ?  I don't have access to a Win 9x machine at the 
>moment, but maybe someone would like to try something like a 'CALL 
>Sleep(2000)' in G77 under Win9x and see if it waits for around 2 seconds ?

I did and it waits for around 2 seconds. I also tried (10000) and then it 
waits for around 10 seconds.
Seems to be milli-second intervals...
What will happen if i run this program (compiled on 98) on 2K? Will it 
waits for 2 seconds or for 2000 ! seconds?

Lars


>    This question seems to have stirred some distant memory in the darkest 
> recesses of my brain, about Win 9x clock ticks being at milli-second 
> intervals, but those recesses are far too dark to be able to remember 
> clearly.
>Kevin.
>
>| -----Original Message-----
>| From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
>| [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
>| Of kevin.lawton@bt.com
>| Sent: 12 December 2003 12:45
>| To: lars.steinke@tu-clausthal.de; cygwin@cygwin.com
>| Subject: RE: GCC G77 Sleep Intrinsic
>|
>| I can confirm that Sleep(n) intrinsic function appears to
>| work as expected under Windoze 2000 (SP2).
>| Could test under Win95 OSR2 and Win-Me this weekend if any use.
>| Kevin.
>|
>| | -----Original Message-----
>| | From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
>| | [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
>| | Of Lars Steinke
>| | Sent: 12 December 2003 12:25
>| | To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>| | Subject: Re: GCC G77 Sleep Intrinsic
>| |
>| | On Thursday 11 December 2003 02:14, Lars Steinke wrote:
>| |  > Hello,
>| |  >
>| |  > I am using G77 (cygwin, GCC G77 on Windows 98 SE) and
>| |  > I have a problem with the following function:
>| |  >
>| |  > Sleep Intrinsic
>| |  > CALL Sleep(Seconds)
>| |  >
>| |  > Seconds: INTEGER(KIND=1); scalar; INTENT(IN).
>| |  >
>| |  > Intrinsic groups: unix.
>| |  >
>| |  > Description:
>| |  >
>| |  > Causes the process to pause for Seconds seconds. See sleep(2).
>| |  >
>| |  > <http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.3.2/g77/Sleep->
>| | Intrinsic.html#Sleep%20Intrinsic>
>| |  >
>| |  > If I write:
>| |  >
>| |  > CALL Sleep(1)
>| |  >
>| |  > in my program and if I compile my program with:
>| |  >
>| |  > g77 -o test test.f
>| |  >
>| |  > the 'sleep' is so fast that you can not see it.
>| |  >
>| | Works fine here on XP. Check the FAQ's to see if C sleep() or
>| | the Sleep API
>| | may not be supported on 98.
>| |
>| | I did check the FAQ, but without success...
>| | I am not very adept at cygwin and g77... Can you help me?
>| |
>| | Thank you very much!
>| |
>| | Lars
>| |
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