RE: [Dev-C++] Thanks and Another question (windows/linux)

[Abhijit S. <mu...@gm...>]

> Since you have worked in windows, could you tell me: time_t or this kind
of things are not used > in windows? I asked because I open both files:
time.h and timeb.h and while time.h seems very
> complete (with the definition of time_t for instance) , timeb.h seems
incomplete. Is there a
> equivalent of time_t for windows. Is the file timeb.h correct? Or for that
matter should I
> cheat the compiler and make it think we are in windows....hummm. I am
confused. Are those files
> complete? Sorry for so many questions, it is that I want to start working
already and I am
> stuck in the no compilation problem and the Aria guys dont answer me yet
:(

Hello, Pukara.
Try #including <time.h> before all your Aria headers. <time.h> is ANSI, and
is portable. I don't know why they've decided not to work with it on
Windows, but you can try it out anyway.

Specifically:
* time_t is legal.
* timeb.h is the header for the Unix ftime() function, and is not ANSI.

Here's a dump of what my reference says about ftime():

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Syntax

#include <sys\timeb.h>
void ftime(struct timeb *buf)

Description

Stores current time in timeb structure.
On UNIX platforms ftime is available only on System V systems.
ftime determines the current time and fills in the fields in the timeb
structure pointed to by buf. The timeb structure contains four fields: time,
millitm, _timezone, and dstflag:

struct timeb {
   long time ;
   short millitm ;
   short _timezone ;
   short dstflag ;

};

time	provides the time in seconds since 00:00:00 Greenwich mean time (GMT)
January 1 1970.
millitm	is the fractional part of a second in milliseconds.
_timezone	is the difference in minutes between GMT and the local time. This
value is computed going west from GMT. ftime gets this field from the global
variable _timezone which is set by tzset.
dstflag	is set to nonzero if daylight saving time is taken into account
during time calculations.

Note:	ftime calls tzset. Therefore it isn't necessary to call tzset
explicitly when you use ftime.

Return Value

None.

Borland C++ 5.0 Programmer's Guide
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