Re: strange bug in gettimeofday function

["Cary Jamison" <Cary_Jamison at Symantec dot com>]

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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