On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 01:30:28PM +0100, Marco van de Voort wrote: > In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: > > Are there any known issues with this sort of thing fpGetTimeOfDay > > (@TimeVal, nil) on various platforms? FPC 2.6.4 and 2.7.1 seem to be OK > > on x86, but on x64 (and FWIW SPARC, haven't tested others) it appears to > > be returning a fixed TimeVal plus a result of zero even if there are > > several seconds between calls. > > My FreeBSD manpage says: > > ... If tp or tzp is NULL, the associated time > information will not be returned or set. > > The Linux manpage words it differently: > > If either tv or tz is NULL, the corresponding structure is not set or > returned. (However, compilation warnings will result if tv is NULL.)
Well that's obvious, you can't dereference a NULL so there's nothing to set. The tz parameter is obsolete, it should normally be NULL. Henry _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
