[PATCH] change CLOCKS_PER_SEC to match POSIX:XSI

Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
Fri Oct 7 11:09:00 GMT 2005


On Oct  6 13:19, Bob Wilson wrote:
> The XSI extension to POSIX requires that CLOCKS_PER_SEC be defined to one 
> million.  The current value in newlib, except for RTEMS and ARM, is 1000.  
> Since this value seems pretty arbitrary, wouldn't it be better to go with 
> the POSIX value?  Here is a patch to change it.
> 
> 2005-10-06  Bob Wilson  <bob.wilson@acm.org>
> 
> 	* libc/include/time.h (CLOCKS_PER_SEC): Define to 1000000.

Careful, please.  This could break newly compiled applications on
systems using the CLOCKS_PER_SEC macro internally.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
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