Re: [ECOS] gettimeofday??

[Stijn Symons <stijn dot symons at acunia dot com>]

Thanks a lot, it's linked, but not yet working :-((

Could you tell us where the defintion of the function
cyg_hal_sys_gettimeofday is, we can't find it and are a bit confused.

thank you,

stijn and tom


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Andrew Lunn wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 04:50:49PM +0200, Stijn Symons wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > is there a way to get the gettimeofday function to work?
>
> Include the SNMP library package. This implements get time of day:
>
> int gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv,
>                  struct timezone *tz)
> {
>     struct _timeb timebuffer;
>
>     _ftime(&timebuffer);
>     tv->tv_usec = timebuffer.millitm * 1000;
>     tv->tv_sec = timebuffer.time;
>     return(0);
> }
>
> > We're working
> > on an iPAQ and at the moment testing on Linux sythetic target.  At this
> > moment we're getting an undefined reference error on it, we also can't
> > find any link between gettimeofday and cyg_hal_gettimeofday (or is this
> > normal?)
>
> Thats normal. You should remember that the synthetic target uses
> synthetic time. Its world starts at the beginnig of the epoc. If you
> want to fast forward history for 30 years, you can call
> cyg_hal_sys_gettimeofday to get the time in the real world and then
> use cyg_libc_time_settime to set the synthetic worlds clock. The clock
> will not be accurate though, because one synthetic second may not be
> one real second.
>
> > And could anybody tell us were the source code of the
> > cyg_hal_gettimeoftime is? or  isn't that part open-source?
>
> find . -type f | xargs grep  cyg_hal_gettimeoftime
>
> returns nothing. That function does not exist.
>
>         Andrew