Date:	Thu, 29 Feb 1996 07:25:16 -0800 (GMT)
From:	Orlando Andico <oandico AT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc:	Erik Luijten <erik AT tntnhb3 DOT tn DOT tudelft DOT nl>, djgpp <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Re: time measurement in protected mode?
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Message-ID:	<Pine.SOL.3.91.960229072411.505A-100000@gollum>
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On Wed, 28 Feb 1996, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> clock() doesn't switch to real mode (it just peeks at a certain address 
> in the BIOS data area).  If you need to measure time for longer than 24 
> hours, you can augment clock() with gettimeofday() (which you can then 
> call once every 24 hours or so).
> 

What about alarm() ? what method does this function use to get the time? 
and setitimer () ?

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                                              Orlando A. Andico
                                              oandico AT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph
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