[fpc-pascal] fpGetTimeOfDay

2015-03-09 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
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

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpGetTimeOfDay

2015-03-09 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
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

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpGetTimeOfDay

2015-03-09 Thread Marco van de Voort
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

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpGetTimeOfDay

2015-03-09 Thread Henry Vermaak
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

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpGetTimeOfDay

2015-03-09 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: If either tv or tz is NULL, the corresponding structure is not set or returned. (However, compilation warnings will result if tv is NULL.) The funny thing is that the snippet of code that I'm using was contributed by you, and