[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] get_time

[Dan Oscarsson]

mån 2010-09-13 klockan 21:53 +0200 skrev Reimar Döffinger:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 09:38:11PM +0200, Dan Oscarsson wrote:
> > Well, my get_time calls same system call that GetTimer does.
> > The only difference is that GetTimer truncates the result to 32 bits.
> > 
> > So why is there a GetTimer? It has the same precision as my get_time and
> > the same faults. The only difference is that it truncates the result to
> > 32 bits. We could just let GetTimer return the full 62 bits instead.
> 
> And what about a system where it would not be the "full 62 bits" but
> instead it would be 36 bits?
> Have fun trying to fix that up to create a value that won't wrap around
> at the most inconvenient time.

Sorry, I meant 64 bits. Probably my fingers remembered 32 and get a 2
last. What I meant was that what is wrong in having av version of
GetTimer that returns the result using 64 bits so that time does not
need to be truncated?

   Dan