On 2019-09-06 16:15, DougC wrote:
If intentionally vague then that fact should be included in the
description along with the reason!
That's a fair comment. I suggest that you raise it in a bug report.
Tomas
---- On Fri, 06 Sep 2019 10:06:24 -0400 Tomas Hajny
<xhaj...@hajny.biz> wrote ----
On 2019-09-03 15:27, Paulo Costa wrote:
While consulting the online reference about gettickcount
https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/gettickcount64.html
I could not know anything about the units involved.
It says "It is useful for time measurements, but no assumtions should
be made as to the interval between the ticks."
I understand that in some cases the measure may deviate from the real
value but perhaps, at least the units, should be stated.
The documentation is vague on purpose - due to the variety of platforms
supported by FPC and the low-level nature of GetTickCount, we do not
want to guarantee specific units (GetTickCount is supposed to be
supported directly by the platform rather than having an additional RTL
layer possibly unifying differences in platform behaviour on top of
it).
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