Quoth tlaro...@polynum.com: > Hello, > > LaTeX now requires primitives (extensions) that are not provided by TeX > nor e-TeX. > > I have hence developed a new engine: Prote, that adds the required > extensions and that will be the main target for the future enhancements. > > (The main purpose is to have one and only one engine, TeX compatible, > e-TeX compatible and LaTeX compatible, with only libc requirements and > BSD like licence, in order to set TeX as the OSes typographical engine.) > > Amongst the extensions I had to add, there are two bits that go beyond > ISO C libc. One is a way to get elapsed time and unfortunately clock(3) > is not the answer. I then used POSIX.1:clock_gettime(2) with CLOCK_MONOTONIC > or CLOCK_REALTIME if the previous is not defined. > > But is clock_gettime(2) available in APE in any instance of Plan9 or is > there a routine achieving the same purpose? >
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