On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 07:20:14PM +0300, Andrew Makhorin wrote: >Hi, > >I detected a strange bug in the standard function gettimeofday. >It *sometimes* reports the time which being expressed as the integer >number of milliseconds is *less* than the time obtained *earlier* with >the same function. > >The expression 1000000 * tv.tv_sec + tv.tv_usec is calculated in >64-bit arithmetic, so overflow cannot happen. The negative difference >in the time values on two successive calls is about 100 milliseconds. > >cygcheck.out is attached.
In cases like this a simple test case is really required. If this is really true then calling gettimeofday in a loop should be enough to demonstrate the problem. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
