[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] get_time

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 08:59:30AM +0200, Dan Oscarsson wrote:
> or what is wrong with 64-bit time?

That some systems might not provide a 64 bit clock with microsecond
precision.
Also, usually you do know which clock is higher and which is lower,
so it's not particularly obfuscated to take wrapping into consideration.
Lastly, not all systems provide monotonous clocks (and even on those that
do I think MPlayer does not use it), so doing this kinds of checks
the naive way is not going to work all that well anyway.