[fpc-pascal] fpGetTimeOfDay

[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 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  The tz parameter is obsolete, it should normally be NULL.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