[fpc-pascal] The unfortunate deprecation of GetTickCount

[Tobias Giesen]

Hello,

personally I use this 64 bit emulation:

var CurrentIncrement:Int64=0;
      LastTickCount:Int64=0;

function TGGetTickCount64:Int64;
begin
  {$ifdef CPUX64}
  Result:=GetTickCount64;
  {$else}
  Result:=GetTickCount+CurrentIncrement;
  if Result<LastTickCount then begin
     Inc(Result,Int64($100000000));
     Inc(CurrentIncrement,Int64($100000000)); // only 99.999999% thread safe but good enough for me
     end;
  {$endif}
  LastTickCount:=Result;
  end;

Kind Regards,

Tobias Giesen

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On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:25:16 +0200
Luca Olivetti <luca at ventoso.org> wrote:

> El 11/04/18 a les 10:06, Luca Olivetti ha escrit:
> > 
> > BEFORE (with gettickcount):
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > var PreviousTick:DWORD;
> > 
> > ...
> >    PreviousTick:=GetTickCount;
> > ...
> > ... if DWORD(GetTickCount-PreviousTick)>WaitTime then....
> 
> 
> BTW, the DWORD typecast is only necessary with fpc, the following 
> program gives 4 and 4 if compiled with delphi 2, 4 and -4294967292 if 
> compiled with fpc 3.0.4
> 
> 
> program project1;
> 
> uses
>    windows;
> 
> var t1,t2,t3:dword;
> begin
>    t1:=$fffffffe;
>    t2:=2;
>    t3:=t2-t1;
>    writeln(t3);
>    writeln(t2-t1);
> end.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Luca
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Kind Regards,
Tobias Giesen

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