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Re: gettimeofday() broken in MiNTLib?

To: t150315@proffa.cc.tut.fi (Tamminen Eero)
Subject: Re: gettimeofday() broken in MiNTLib?
From: Kay Roemer <roemer@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 96 10:59:28 MEZ
Cc: mint@atari.archive.umich.edu
In-reply-to: <199602261411.QAA02141@proffa.cc.tut.fi>; from "Tamminen Eero" at Feb 26, 96 4:11 pm
Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85]
Posted-date: Tue, 27 Feb 96 10:59:28 MEZ

> When I compile the gettimeofday() code at the bottom, only timeval
> struct member tv_sec changes and in step of two!!! The interval seems
> to be about one second so it's also bogus besides not being updated
> at 200hz interval as I would have thought. This throws off my W Jewel
> game timing a 'bit'...

gettimeofday() on Mint uses the Time() system call which has a resolution
of 2 seconds. In my portlib is a hacked version __5ms_gettimeofday() that
uses the 200 Hz timer to get a 5ms resolution instead.

Kay.
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References:
- gettimeofday() broken in MiNTLib?
  - From: Tamminen Eero <t150315@proffa.cc.tut.fi>

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