[fpc-devel] About GetTickCount

[Thaddy]

Did anybody mention gettickcount is documented as microtiming?
And should not be expanded?

On 3-11-2011 9:57, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, zeljko said:
>>> So, according to POSIX clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) is supported on
>>> linux, bsd and others, and in that case we can have exact GetTickCount.
>>> If there's no support for monotonic clock on some platform , now() can be
>>> returned anytime.
>
>> Forget all about this, only CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW is something we need but it's
>> supported as of 2.6.28 kernel ... so no way.
> (and afaik POSIX doesn't specify the granularity, you need to do a separate
> call for that. It could be seconds)
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