Beta 18 breaks gettimeofday

Michaela Kurz micha@genias.de
Mon May 26 00:59:00 GMT 1997


On Tue, 20 May 1997, Jonathan Wilkins wrote:

> I have just upgraded to beta 18 and was rebuilding an application and had
> some troubles.. after tracking things down it seems to be a problem with
> the gettimeofday() call..  sample code follows:
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <time.h>
> #include <sys/time.h>
> #include <errno.h>
> 
> int main()
> {
>   struct timeval *tvp;
>   struct timeval  tv;
> 
>   tvp = &tv;
> 
>   if(gettimeofday(tvp, NULL) != 0){
>     printf("\n failed \n error was : %s\n", strerror(errno));
>   } else {
>     printf("\n worked \n tv_sec is : %i\n tv_usec is : %i", 
>            tv.tv_sec, tv.tv_usec);
>   }
>   return(0);
> }
> 
> this code works on freebsd, and other gettimeofday calls used to work on B17.1
> 
> any ideas?

sorry no, but another problem with this function: 
Where is the prototype?

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M. Kurz
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