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From:	"Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
To:	"Ben Peddell" <killer DOT lightspeed AT bigpond DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: uclock() still out by 1 in 65536
Date:	Fri, 30 May 2003 15:05:11 +1000
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> >Some questions:-
> >Are you using the 2.04 alpha 1 or the 2.03 release? If you are using the
> >2.04 alpha 1 then different code gets executed on NT/2K/XP than on
> >MS-DOS/W9x/ME, so now for the next questions :-
> >What OS are you using?
> >
> I am using 2.03 on MS-DOS. I also had a look at the code mirrored at
> <http://www.ludd.luth.se/~ams/djgpp/cvs/>, and it also showed that it's
> programming the clock to 65535 cycles per tic instead of 65536 cycles
> per tic. Can't seem to find the code you're talking about there.

The latest uclock.c has the following snippit of code in it, this is the
part that is executed only on NT/2K/XP.

  if (_os_trueversion == 0x532) {       /* Windows NT, 2000, XP */
    static double multiplier;
    static unsigned long btics;

.... SNIP.....


Andrew

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