------- Comment #2 from fkrogh#gcc at mathalacarte dot com 2009-08-24 17:34 ------- I had thought that was the case as well. But when I started getting some negative times by subtracting the previous value from the current one in the first location of the array I looked at the info file and found
Subsequent invocations of `DTIME' return values accumulated since the previous invocation. I modified the code to compute the times between invocations. The code now looks like program test_dtime integer(8) :: i, j, k real, dimension(2) :: tarray real :: result real :: accum, tarray1 real :: ptimes(10) call dtime(tarray, result) print '(''tarray,result:'', 1P, 3E20.11)', tarray, result do i=1,100000000 ! Just a delay j = i * i - i end do call dtime(tarray, result) print '(''tarray,result:'', 1P, 3E20.11)', tarray, result accum = 0.e0 ! Should accumulate 10 times previous tarray(1) call dtime(tarray, result) tarray1 = tarray(1) do k=1, 10 do i=1,100000000 ! Just a delay j = i * i - i end do call dtime(tarray, result) ptimes(k) = tarray(1) - tarray1 tarray1 = tarray(1) accum = accum + tarray(1) end do print '(''accum ='', 1P, E20.11 )', accum print '(''ptimes ='', 1P, (3E20.11))', ptimes end program test_dtime And the output is tarray,result: 0.00000000000E+00 9.99000039883E-04 9.99000039883E-04 tarray,result: 3.80941987038E-01 3.00000002608E-03 3.83941978216E-01 accum = 1.34219570160E+01 ptimes = 7.64882981777E-01 -3.78940939903E-01 7.60881841183E-01 -3.77939820290E-01 7.63881921768E-01 -3.80940914154E-01 7.63882875443E-01 -3.78940820694E-01 7.61881709099E-01 -3.78939628601E-01 There is a pattern here, but why? If dtime is getting overflows in times less than a few seconds, there is a problem as well. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41157