rtems 4.9.0 rtems_clock_get API improvements.... not always

[Joel Sherrill]

Maurizio Scavazzon wrote:
>
>
> > Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:58:27 -0500
> > From: joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com
> > To: scavazzon at hotmail.com
> > CC: rtems-users at rtems.org
> > Subject: Re: rtems 4.9.0 rtems_clock_get API improvements.... not always
>  
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> > Do you really need the Classic API TOD format or would you be
> > better served by using rtems_clock_get_timespec?
>
> I cannot find any rtems_clock_get_timespec. Were you talking about the 
> rtems_clock_get with RTEMS_CLOCK_GET_TIME_VALUE option?
http://www.rtems.org/onlinedocs//doc-current/share/rtems/html/c_user/c_user00121.html
> I need the TOD format because date and time are displayed in the 
> device's MMI and used to store events with timestamp anytime they occour.
>
Why are you grabbing the timestamp in a printable format?  Let the MMI
convert the timestamp into a printable format.
>
> > Alternatively do you have a faster algorithm for converting
> > seconds/nanoseconds into the Classic API TOD format.
>
> Actually I have no time to investigate this issue, maybe in the 
> future. Moreover a solution that was right for me was already there in 
> the previous version of rtems.
>
But the previous solution could only give timestamps to tick granularity.
> Thank you for your answers.
>
No problem.
> Regards,
> Maurizio
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