RE: [Dev-C++] System specific?

[Ioannis V. <no...@ho...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev...@li... 
> [mailto:dev...@li...] On Behalf 
> Of Christian Faulhammer
> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 7:45 PM
> To: To: dev...@li...
> Subject: [Dev-C++] System specific?
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> In university I am doing a programming course and last week we had an
> excercise using a given function to measure time:
> 
> ----------------------------8< schnipp------------------------------
> double MyTime() {
>   struct timeval Tp;
>   gettimeofday (&Tp, NULL);
>   return Tp.tv_sec + (Tp.tv_usec /10000000.);
> }
> ----------------------------schnapp >8------------------------------
> 
> At home I wanted to finish the program using Dev-C++ (current 
> beta with
> fixed exe), but the compiler refused work when compiling this function
> with the message
> 
> ----------------------------8< schnipp------------------------------
> aggregate `struct timeval Tp' has incomplete type and cannot be
> initialized
> ----------------------------schnapp >8------------------------------
> 
> But in university (under Linux) it does work....so is this a 
> problem of
> the compiler (gcc versions differ in university and at home) or a
> platform problem (Linux specific parts)? Sorry, I am no 
> expert, just had
> two weeks of this course and I am only used to basic (under DOS).


For portable code use the functions provided in time.h . There is much
useful stuff in there.



Ioannis

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