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Re: strange bug in gettimeofday function
- From: "Cary Jamison" <Cary_Jamison at Symantec dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:50:48 -0700
- Subject: Re: strange bug in gettimeofday function
- References: <13811889795.20070215071733@gnu.org>
Andrew Makhorin wrote:
> double get_time(void)
> { struct timeval tv;
> gettimeofday(&tv, NULL);
> return (double)tv.tv_sec + 1e-6 * (double)tv.tv_usec;
> }
I would be suspicious of floating-point rounding errors here for the
original problem you described. Why don't you try a test case that just
checks if one tv is ever less than a previous tv, without the conversions.
Cary
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