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dcf686c9 1Revision history for Perl extension Time::HiRes.
2
82cbdcc3 31.82 [2005-10-06]
4 - CLOCK_REALTIME is an enum value (of the clockid_t enum)
5 in HP-UX (and might be so elsewhere, too), debugged by
6 H. Merijn Brand
7 - include const-c.inc as late as possible (from Randy Kobes,
8 [rt.cpan.org #15552] to avoid undefined usleep() on Win32
9
b311af62 101.81 [2005-10-05]
11 - try to be more robust and consistent in the detection of
12 CLOCK_REALTIME and ITIMER_VIRTUAL in HiRes.t: the proper
13 way is
14
15 sub has_symbol {
16 my $symbol = shift;
17 eval 'import Time::HiRes qw($symbol)';
18 return 0 unless $@ eq '';
19 return exists ${"Time::HiRes::$symbol"};
20 }
21
22 and then use
23
24 &FOO_BAR
25
26 in the test. All these moves are needed because
27
28 1) one cannot directly do eval 'Time::HiRes::FOO_BAR'
29 because FOO_BAR might have a true value of zero
30 (or in the general case an empty string or even undef)
31
32 2) In case FOO_BAR is not available in this platform,
33 &FOO_BAR avoids the bareword warning
34
35 - wait more (1.5 seconds instead of 0.1) for the CLOCK_REALTIME test
36 but expect the 'customary' slop of 0.20 instead of 0.25
37 - fixed inside a comment HAS_POLL -> TIME_HIRES_NANOSLEEP
38 - at the end of HiRest.t tell how close we were to termination
39
70cf0185 401.80 [2005-10-04]
41 - Gisle noticed a mistake (using HAS_NANOSLEEP) in 1.79
42
e5433ad8 431.79 [2005-10-03]
44 - try nanosleep for emulating usleep -- may help in some weird
45 embedded realtime places which have nanosleep but neither usleep
46 nor select nor poll (doesn't have to be weird embedded realtime
47 place, though -- in many places usleep is nanosleep anyway)
48 - try poll for emulating usleep -- this may help some obscure/old
49 SVR4 places that have neither usleep nor select
50 - a redundant test guard in HiRes.t
51
1a7d3a53 521.78 [2005-10-03]
53 - ITIMER_VIRTUAL detection in HiRes.t had problems (that we cannot
e5433ad8 54 in the general case fail already at 'use' phase is suboptimal)
1a7d3a53 55 - fixes to the documentation of clock_gettime() and clock_getres()
56
ced84e60 571.77 [2005-10-03]
58 - add support for the POSIX clock_gettime() and clock_getres(),
59 if available, either as library calls or as syscalls
60 - be more defensive about missing functionality: break out
61 early (during 'use') if no e.g. clock_getres() is available,
62 and protect our back by trapping those cases also in HiRes.xs
63 - the test added in 1.76 could cause an endless loop e.g. in Solaris,
64 due to mixing of sleep() and alarm() (bad programmer, no cookie!)
65
3d0346a5 661.76 [2005-10-22]
67 - testing for nanosleep had wrong logic which caused nanosleep
68 to become undefined for e.g. Mac OS X
69 - added a test for a core dump that was introduced by Perl 5.8.0
70 safe signals and was fixed for the time of 5.8.1 (one report of
71 the core dump was [perl #20920]), the test skipped pre-5.8.1.
72 - *cough* s/unanosleep/nanosleep/g; *cough*
73
9649b81b 741.75 [2005-10-18]
75 - installation patch from Gisle Aas: in Perls 5.8.x and later
76 use MakeMaker INSTALLDIRS value of 'perl' instead of 'site'.
77
06252d99 781.74 [2005-09-19]
79 - [cpan #14608] Solaris 8 perl 5.005_03 File::Spec module does not have method rel2abs
80 (the workaround is not to use rel2abs, should not be necessary)
81 - [cpan #14642] U2time wrongly exported on the C API
82 (patch supplied by the reporter, SALVA@cpan.org)
83 - add release dates to Changes
84
851.73 [2005-08-16]
86 - Time::HiRes::nanosleep support for Solaris [PATCH]
937b804e 87 (POSIX::uname() not available if building with core perl,
88 from Gisle Aas, via perl5-porters, perl change #25295)
89
06252d99 901.72 [2005-07-01]
91 - going back to the 1.68 loader setup (using DynaLoader)
0cf8ddea 92 since too many weird things starting breaking
93 - fix a typo in José Auguste-Etienne's name
94
06252d99 951.71 [2005-06-28]
96 - a thinko in the nanosleep() detection
56c1b3bd 97 - move more changes stuff from the README to Changes
98 - add -w to the Makefile.PL
99
06252d99 1001.70 [2005-06-26]
101 - oops in 1.69 about @ISA (not affecting anything but silly)
f8daf111 102 - add copyright 2005 to HiRes.pm
103 - add copyright and license to HiRes.xs
56c1b3bd 104 - add copyrights 2003, 2004, 2005 to README
f8daf111 105
06252d99 1061.69 [2005-06-25]
107 - actually run a test for nanosleep
56c1b3bd 108 (if there is no $Config{d_nanosleep}) since e.g. in AIX 4.2
26e22fd9 109 it seems that one can link in nanosleep() but then calling
110 it fails instantly and sets errno to ENOSYS (Not implemented).
111 This may be fixable in the AIX case by figuring out the right
112 (realtime POSIX?) libs and whatnot, but in the general case
113 running a real test case is better. (Of course, this change
114 will no doubt run into portability problems because of the
0cf8ddea 115 execution step...) Note that because of hysterical raisins
116 most Perls do NOT have $Config{d_nanosleep} (scanning for
117 it by Configure would in many platforms require linking in
118 things like -lrt, which would in many platforms be a bad idea
119 for Perl itself).
120 (from José Auguste-Etienne)
26e22fd9 121 - support XSLoader also since it's much faster
122 (from Alexey Tourbin)
123 - add SEE ALSO (BSD::Resource and Time::TAI64)
124
06252d99 1251.68 [2005-05-14]
993164ab 126 - somehow 1.67 had a lot of doubled lines (a major cut-and-paste
127 error suspected), but miraculously it still worked since the
128 doubling took place below the __END__ token
129 - undef Pause() before defining it to avoid redefinition warnings
130 during compilation in case perl.h had already defined Pause()
131 (part of perl change #24271)
132 - minor doc tweaks
133
06252d99 1341.67 [2005-05-04]
993164ab 135 - (internal) don't ignore the return value of gettimeofday()
136 - (external) return undef or an empty if the C gettimeofday() fails
137 (affects Time::HiRes gettimeofday() and the hires time())
138
06252d99 1391.66 [2004-12-19]
44d3ce20 140 - add nanosleep()
141 - fix the 'hierachy' typo in Makefile.PL [rt.cpan.org #8492]
142 - should now build in Solaris [rt.cpan.org #7165] (since 1.64)
143 - should now build in Cygwin [rt.cpan.org #7535] (since 1.64)
82cbdcc3 144 - close also [rt.cpan.org #5933] "Time::HiRes::time does not
145 pick up time adjustments like ntp" since ever reproducing it
146 (and therefore verifying a possible fix) in the same environment
44d3ce20 147 has become rather unlikely
148
06252d99 1491.65 [2004-09-18]
64a7a97c 150 - one should not mix u?alarm and sleep (the tests modified
151 by 1.65, #12 and #13, hung in Solaris), now we just busy
152 loop executing an empty block
153 - in the documentation underline the unspecificity of mixing
154 sleeps and alarms
155 - small spelling fixes
156
06252d99 1571.64 [2004-09-16]
64a7a97c 158 - regenerate ppport.h with Devel::PPPort 3.03,
159 now the MY_CXT_CLONE is defined in ppport.h,
160 we no more need to do that.
161
162 - the test #12 would often hang in sigsuspend() (at least that's
163 where Mac OS X' ktrace shows it hanging). With the sleep()s
164 changed to sleep(1)s, the tests still pass but no hang after
165 a few hundred repeats.
166
06252d99 1671.63 [2004-09-01]
1fbb4de4 168 - Win32 and any ithread build: ppport.h didn't define
169 MY_CXT_CLONE, which seems to be a Time-HiResism.
170
06252d99 1711.62 [2004-08-31]
1fbb4de4 172 - Skip testing if under PERL_CORE and Time::HiRes has not
173 been Configured (from Marcus Holland-Moritz, core change
174 #23246)
175 - Use ppport.h generated by Devel::PPPort 3.01,
176 allowing cutting away our own portability code.
177 - Don't use $ENV{PERL_CORE} for < 5.6.0.
178 - Don't use "for my $i" for <= 5.003.
179 - Don't use Pause() for <= 5.003.
180 - Can't use newSVpvf for <= 5.003.
181 (most of the changes from Marcus)
182
06252d99 1831.61 [2004-08-21]
4ed0e2d4 184 - Win32: reset reading from the performance counters every
185 five minutes to better track wall clock time (thanks to
186 PC timers being often quite bad), should help long-running
187 programs.
188
06252d99 1891.60 [2004-08-15]
4ed0e2d4 190 - Win32: Patch from Steve Hay
191 [PATCH] Re: [perl #30755] [Win32] Different results from Time::HiRes::gettimeofdayunder the debugger
192 to [perl #30755] reported by Nigel Sandever
193
194 - Cygwin: Use the Win32 recalibration code also in Cygwin if the
195 <w32api/windows.h> APIs are available. Cygwin testing by
196 Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes.
197
198 - Solaris: use -lposix4 to get nanosleep for Solaris 2.6,
199 after that keep using -lrt, patch from Alan Burlison,
200 bug reported in [cpan #7165]
201
06252d99 2021.59 [2004-04-08]
d8cb5b61 203 - Change the Win32 recalibration limit to 0.5 seconds and tweak
204 the documentation to blather less about the gory details of the
205 Win32 implementation and more about the complications in general
206 of meddling with the system clock.
207
06252d99 2081.58 [2004-04-08]
d8cb5b61 209 - Document the 1.57 change better.
210
06252d99 2111.57 [2004-07-04]
d8cb5b61 212 - Win32/Cygwin/MinGW: if the performance counter drifts by more
213 than two seconds from the system clock (due to ntp adjustments,
c1dc6e7c 214 for example), recalibrate our internal counter: from Jan Dubois,
215 based on [cpan #5933] by Jerry D. Hedden.
216
06252d99 2171.56 [2004-29-02]
1caec985 218 - Give a clearer message if the tests timeout (perl change #22253)
219 - Don't use /tmp or its moral equivalents (perl bug #15036,
220 perl change #22258)
221
06252d99 2221.55 [2004-01-14]
4ed0e2d4 223 - Windows: mingw32 patch from Mike Pomraning (use Perl's Const64()
b6136f41 224 instead of VC-specific i64 suffix)
225
06252d99 2261.54 [2003-12-31]
0225372c 227 - Solaris: like Tru64 (dec_osf) also Solaris need -lrt for nanosleep
228
06252d99 2291.53 [2003-12-30]
0225372c 230 - Windows: higher resolution time() by using the Windows
231 performance counter API, from Jan Dubois and Anton Shcherbinin.
232 The exact new higher resolution depends on the hardware,
233 but it should be quite a bit better than using the basic
234 Windows timers.
235
06252d99 2361.52 [2003-10-28]
690f7c5f 237 - In AIX (v?) with perl 5.6.1 the HiRes.t can hang after
238 the subtest 18. No known analysis nor fix, but added
239 an alarm (that requires fork() and alarm()) to the test.
240
06252d99 2411.51 [2003-09-22]
b85af263 242 - doc tweaks from mjd (perl change #20456)
243 - NCR MP-RAS hints file added (svr4.pl) (perl change #21249)
244
06252d99 2451.50 [2003-08-02]
d7358e6a 246 - add a message (for non-core builds) to Makefile.PL about
247 the LC_ALL=C workaround
248 - &Time::HiRes::d_nanosleep was broken (perl change #20131)
249 - the nanosleep() probe was broken (perl change #20061)
250 - use existence instead of definedness for feature probes
251 (perl change #20043)
252 - MPE/iX tweak (perl change #20042)
253 - do not use HAS_NANOSLEEP (perl change #19898)
254
06252d99 2551.49 [2003-06-23]
df16a331 256 - UVuf for non-IVSIZE platforms (from Keiichiro Nagano)
257 - OS/2 can always mix subsecond sleeps with signals
258 (part of perl change #19789)
259
06252d99 2601.48 [2003-06-04]
2d9815af 261 - workaround for buggy gcc 2.95.3 in openbsd/sparc64
262 (perl change #19592)
263
06252d99 2641.47 [2003-05-03]
2d9815af 265 - do not use -lrt in Linux (from March Lehmann, perl change #19449)
1a08a6ab 266 - unnecessary (nanosleep is in libc anyway)
267 - harmful (-lrt slows down execution)
268 - incompatible (with many distributions' pthreads)
269
06252d99 2701.46 [2003-04-25]
25ca0970 271 - do not create files in blib directories under core
272 (perl change #19160, from rgs)
273 - detypo s/VTLARM/VTARLM/ (perl change #19328, from mjd)
274
06252d99 2751.45 [2003-04-01]
25ca0970 276 - guarantee that $xdefine in HiRes.t is always defined
277 (perl change #19109, from IlyaZ)
278 - a cleaner way to detect PERL_CORE (perl change #19111,
279 from IlyaZ)
280
06252d99 2811.44 [2003-03-30]
0be47ac6 282 - add hints/irix.pl to turn off overly POSIX flags that
283 cause hide struct timespec to be hidden (and compilation
25ca0970 284 to fail) (bleadperl change #19085)
0be47ac6 285 - documentation tweaks
286
06252d99 2871.43 [2003-03-11]
a0c8e3cf 288 - add c:/temp to the list of temp directories to probe
289 so that cygwin (and win*?) builds are happy. This was
290 needed at least in my cygwin 1.3.20/w2k setup.
291
06252d99 2921.42 [2003-01-07]
98b50af3 293 - modernize the constants code (from Nicholas Clark)
294
06252d99 2951.41 [2003-01-03]
98b50af3 296 - At some point the ability to figure our the correct incdir
297 for EXTERN.h (either a core perl build, or an installed perl)
298 had broken (which lead into all test compiles failing with
299 a core perl build, but thanks to the robustness of Makefile.PL
a0c8e3cf 300 nothing of this was visible). The brokenness seemed to be
301 caused by $ENV{PERL_CORE} not being on for core builds?
302 Now stole a trick from the Encode that sets $ENV{PERL_CORE}
303 right, and both styles of build should work again.
98b50af3 304
06252d99 3051.40 [2003-01-03]
98b50af3 306 - Nicholas Clark noticed that the my_catdir() emulation function
307 was broken (which means that we didn't really work for Perls
308 5.002 and 5.003)
309 - inspired by fixing the above made the whole Makefile.PL -w
310 and strict clean
311 - tightened up the Makefile.PL output, less whitespace
312
06252d99 3131.39 [2003-10-20]
6a20eacc 314 - fix from Craig Berry for better building in VMS with PERL_CORE
315
06252d99 3161.38 [2003-10-13]
3f2ee006 317 - no functional changes
318 - move lib/Time/HiRes.pm as Hires.pm
319 - libraries scanning was slightly broken (always scanned
320 for a library even when $Config{libs} already had it)
321
06252d99 3221.37 [2003-09-23]
3f2ee006 323 - Ray Zimmerman ran into a race condition in Mac OS X.
324 A 0.01-second alarm fired before the test expected.
325 The test first slept indefinitely (blocking for signals)
326 and only after that tested for the signal having been sent.
327 Since the signal had already been sent, the test #12 never
328 completed. The solution: test first, then block.
329 - default to being silent on all probing attempts, set the
330 environment variable VERBOSE to a true value to see the
331 details (the probing command and the possible errors)
332
06252d99 3331.36 [2003-09-12]
3f2ee006 334 - do not clear MAN3PODS in Makefile.PL (Radoslaw Zielinski)
335 - INSTALLDIRS => 'perl' missing which means that Time::HiRes
336 cannot be upgraded from CPAN to override the 5.8.0 version
337 (Guido A. Ostkamp)
338 - Time::HiRes 1.35 could not be dropped as-is to bleadperl
339 because the include directories did not adjust themselves
340 if $ENV{PERL_CORE} (Hugo van der Sanden)
341 - add documentation about the restart of select() under alarm()
342
06252d99 3431.35 [2003-08-24]
3f2ee006 344 - small documentation tweaks
345
346
06252d99 3471.34 [2003-08-22]
3f2ee006 348 - better VMS operation (Craig Berry)
349
06252d99 3501.33 [2003-08-20]
3f2ee006 351 - our time machine is accelerating: now works with Perl 5.004_01
352 (tried with 5.003_07 and 5.002 but I get segmentation faults
353 from running the Makefile.PL with those in Tru64 4.0D)
354
06252d99 3551.32 [2003-08-20]
3f2ee006 356 - backward compatibility (pre-5.6.0) tweaks:
357 - no XSLoader in 5.00503, use DynaLoader instead
358 - no SvPV_nolen, either
359 - no PerlProc_pause(), either
360 - now tested with 5.00404 and 5.00503
361 - Makefile.PL requires 5.00404 (no more 5.002)
362 - use nanosleep instead of usleep, if it is available (Wilson Snyder)
363 (this means that one can mix subsecond sleeps with alarms)
364 - because of nanosleep we probe for -lrt and -lposix4
365 - the existence of getitimer/nanosleep/setitimer/ualarm/usleep
366 is available by exportable constants Time::HiRes::d_func
367 (since older Perl do not have them in %Config, and even
368 5.8.0 does not probe for nanosleep)
369
06252d99 3701.31 [2003-08-19]
3f2ee006 371 - backward compatibility (pre-5.6.1) tweaks:
372 - define NV if no NVTYPE
373 - define IVdf if needed (note: the Devel::PPPort
374 in 5.8.0 does not try hard hard enough since
375 the IVSIZE might not be defined)
376 - define NVgf if needed
377 - grab the typemap from 5.8.0 for the NV stuff
56c1b3bd 378
379 1.31 and 1.32 add more backward compatibility (now all the way
380 back to Perl 5.00404), and using nanosleep() (if available) for
381 subsecond sleeps.
382
06252d99 3831.30 [2003-08-16]
3f2ee006 384
385 - release 1.29_02 as 1.30
386
56c1b3bd 387 1.30 adds all the changes made during the Perl 5.6->5.7->5.8
388 development cycle. Most notably portability across platforms has been
389 enhanced, and the interval timers (setitimer, getitimer) have been
390 added. Note that the version of Time::HiRes that is included in Perl
391 5.8.0 calls itself 1.20_00, but it is equivalent to this Time::HiRes
392 version. Note also that in 1.30 Wegscheid turns over the maintenance
393 to Jarkko Hietaniemi.
394
06252d99 3951.29_02 [2003-08-16]
3f2ee006 396
397 - fix a silly unclosed comment typo in HiRes.xs
398 - document and export REALTIME_REALPROF (Solaris)
399
06252d99 4001.29_01 [2003-08-16]
3f2ee006 401
402 - only getitimer(ITIMER_REAL) available in Cygwin and Win32
403 (need to patch this also in Perl 5.[89])
404 - remove CVS revision log from HiRes.xs
405
06252d99 4061.29_00 [2003-08-14]
3f2ee006 407
408 The following numbered patches refer to the Perl 5.7 changes,
409 you can browse them at http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse
410
411 - 17558: Add #!./perl to the .t
412 - 17201: linux + usemorebits fix, from Rafael Garcia-Suarez
413 - 16198: political correctness, from Simon Cozens
414 - 15857: doc tweaks, from Jarkko Hietaniemi
415 - 15593: optimization in .xs, from Paul Green
416 - 14892: pod fixes, from Robin Barker
417 - 14100: VOS fixes, from Paul Green
418 - 13422: XS segfault, from Marc Lehmann
419 - 13378: whether select() gets restarted on signals, depends
420 - 13354: timing constraints, again, from Andy Dougherty
421 - 13278: can't do subecond alarms with ualarm;
422 break out early if alarms do not seem to be working
423 - 13266: test relaxation (cygwin gets lower hires
424 times than lores ones)
425 - 12846: protect against high load, from Jarkko Hietaniemi
426 - 12837: HiRes.t VMS tweak, from Craig A. Berry
427 - 12797: HiRes.t VMS tweak, from Charles Lane
428 - 12769: HiRes.t VMS tweak, from Craig A. Berry
429 - 12744: gcc vs MS 64-bit constant syntax, from Nick Ing-Simmons
430 - 12722: VMS ualarm for VMS without ualarm, from Charles Lane
431 - 12692: alarm() ain't gonna work if ualarm() ain't,
432 from Gurusamy Sarathy
433 - 12680: minor VMS tweak, from Charles Lane
434 - 12617: don't try to print ints as IVs, from Jarkko Hietaniemi
435 - 12609: croak on negative time, from Jarkko Hietaniemi
436 - 12595: Cygwin rounds up for time(), from Jarkko Hietaniemi
437 - 12594: MacOS Classic timeofday, from Chris Nandor
438 - 12473: allow for more than one second for sleep() and usleep()
439 - 12458: test tuning, relax timing constraints,
440 from Jarkko Hietaniemi
441 - 12449: make sleep() and usleep() to return the number
442 of seconds and microseconds actually slept (analogously
443 with the builtin sleep()), also make usleep() croak if
444 asked for more than 1_000_000 useconds, from Jarkko Hietaniemi
445 - 12366: Time::HiRes for VMS pre-7.0, from Charles Lane
446 - 12199: do not use ftime on Win32, from Gurusamy Sarathy
447 - 12196: use ftime() on Win32, from Artur Bergman
448 - 12184: fix Time::HiRes gettimeofday() on Win32, from Gurusamy Sarathy
449 - 12105: use GetSystemTime() on Win32, from Artur Bergman
450 - 12060: explain the 1e9 seconds problem, from Jarkko Hietaniemi
451 - 11901: UNICOS sloppy division, from Jarkko Hietaniemi
452 - 11797: problem in HiRes.t, from John P. Linderman
453 - 11414: prototype from Time::HiRes::sleep(), from Abhijit Menon-Sen
454 - 11409: Time::HiRes qw(sleep) failed, from Abhijit Menon-Sen
455 - 11270: dynix/ptx 4.5.2 hints fix, from Peter Prymmer
456 - 11032: VAX VMS s/div/lib\$ediv/ fix, from Peter Prymmer
457 - 11011: VAX VMS s/qdiv/div/ fix, from Peter Prymmer
458 - 10953: SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 requires an explicit -lc for usleep(),
459 from Jonathan Stowe
460 - 10942: MPE/IX test tweaks, from Mark Bixby
461 - 10784: unnecessary pod2man calls, from Andy Dougherty
462 - 10354: ext/ + -Wall, from Doug MacEachern
463 - 10320: fix the BOOT section to call myU2time correctly
464 - 10317: correct casting for AIX< from H. Merijn Brand
465 - 10119: document that the core time() may be rounding, not truncating
466 - 10118: test fix, from John Peacock
467 - 9988: long =item, from Robin Barker
468 - 9714: correct test output
469 - 9708: test also the scalar aspect of getitimer()
470 - 9705: Add interval timers (setitimer, getitimer)
471 - 9692: do not require at least 5.005 using XS
472
473 The following changes were made on top of the changes
474 made for Time::HiRes during the Perl 5.7 development
475 cycle that culminated in the release of Perl 5.8.0.
476
477 - add "require 5.005" to the Makefile.PL
478 - remove the REVISION section (CVS log) from HiRes.pm
479 - add jhi's copyright alongside Douglas'
480 - move HiRes.pm to lib/Time/
481 - move HiRes.t to t/
482 - modify HiRes.t to use $ENV{PERL_CORE}
483 - modify the original Time::HiRes version 1.20 Makefile.PL
484 to work both with Perl 5.8.0 and the new code with pre-5.8.0
485 Perls (tried with 5.6.1)
486 - tiny tweaks and updates in README and TODO
487 - bump the VERSION to 1.29
488
dcf686c9 4891.20 Wed Feb 24 21:30 1999
490 - make our usleep and ualarm substitutes into hrt_usleep
491 and hrt_ualarm. This helps static links of Perl with other
492 packages that also have usleep, etc. From
493 Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
494 - add C API stuff. From Joshua Pritikin
495 <joshua.pritikin@db.com>
3f2ee006 496 - VMS Makefile.PL fun. From pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer)
dcf686c9 497 - hopefully correct "-lc" fix for SCO.
498 - add PPD stuff
499
56c1b3bd 500 1.20 adds a platform neutral set of C accessible routines if you are
501 running 5.005+. All other changes are packaging changes and build
502 fixes(?) for statically linked Perl, SCO, and VMS.
503
dcf686c9 5041.19 Tue Sep 29 22:30 1998
505 - put VMS gettimeofday() in. Patch is from Sebastian Bazley
506 <seb@stian.demon.co.uk>
507 - change GIMME_V to GIMME to help people with older versions of
508 Perl.
509 - fix Win32 version of gettimeofday(). It didn't affect anything,
510 but it confuses people reading the code when the return value
511 is backwards (0 is success).
512 - fix Makefile.PL (more) so that detection of gettimeofday is
513 more correct.
514
56c1b3bd 515 1.19 has better VMS support.
516
dcf686c9 5171.18 Mon Jul 6 22:40 1998
518 - add usleep() for Win32.
519 - fix Makefile.PL to fix reported HP/UX feature where unresolved
520 externals still cause an executable to be generated (though no
521 x bit set). Thanks to David Kozinn for report and explanation.
522 Problems with the fix are mine :)
523
56c1b3bd 524 1.18 has limited Win32 support (no ualarm). Added usleep for Win32.
525 Probably buggy. I'm sure I'll hear.
526
dcf686c9 5271.17 Wed Jul 1 20:10 1998
528 - fix setitimer calls so microseconds is not more than 1000000.
529 Hp/UX 9 doesn't like that. Provided by Roland B Robert, PhD.
3f2ee006 530 - make Win32. We only get gettimeofday (the select hack doesn't
dcf686c9 531 seem to work on my Win95 system).
3f2ee006 532 - fix test 4 on 01test.t. add test to see if time() and
dcf686c9 533 Time::HiRes::time() are close.
534
5351.16 Wed Nov 12 21:05 1997
536 - add missing EXTEND in new gettimeofday scalar code.
537
56c1b3bd 538 1.16+ should be closer to building out of the box on Linux. Thanks
539 to Gisle Aas for patches, and the ualarm equivalent using setitimer.
540
541 If your underlying operating system doesn't implement ualarm(), then
542 a fake using setitimer() will be made. If the OS is missing usleep(),
543 a fake one using select() will be made. If a fake can't be made for
544 either ualarm() or usleep(), then the corresponding Perl function will
545 not be available. If the OS is missing gettimeofday(), you will get
546 unresolved externals, either at link- or run-time.
547
548 This is an improvement; the package used to not even build if
549 you were missing any of these bits. Roderick Schertler
550
551 <roderick@argon.org> did all the conditional compilation stuff,
552 look at HiRes.pm and the test suites; it's good educational reading.
553
dcf686c9 5541.15 Mon Nov 10 21:30 1997
555 - HiRes.pm: update pod. Provided by Gisle Aas.
556 - HiRes.xs: if gettimeofday() called in scalar context, do
557 something more useful than before. Provided by Gisle Aas.
558 - README: tell of xsubpp '-nolinenumber' woes. thanks to
559 Edward Henigin <ed@texas.net> for pointing out the problem.
560
5611.14 Wed Nov 5 9:40 1997
562 - Makefile.PL: look for setitimer
563 - HiRes.xs: if missing ualarm, but we have setitimer, make up
564 our own setitimer. These were provided by Gisle Aas.
565
5661.13 Tue Nov 4 23:30 1997
567 - Makefile.PL: fix autodetect mechanism to do try linking in addition
568 to just compiling; should fix Linux build problem. Fix was provided
569 by Gisle Aas.
570
5711.12 Sun Oct 12 12:00:00 1997
572 - Makefile.PL: set XSOPT to '-nolinenumbers' to work around xsubpp bug;
573 you may need to comment this back out if you have an older xsubpp.
574 - HiRes.xs: set PROTOTYPES: DISABLE
575
5761.11 Fri Sep 05 16:00:00 1997
577 - Makefile.PL:
578 Had some line commented out that shouldn't have been (testing
579 remnants)
580 - README:
581 Previous version was corrupted.
582
5831.10 Thu May 22 20:20:00 1997
584 - HiRes.xs, HiRes.pm, t/*:
585 - only compile what we have OS support for (or can
586 fake with select())
587 - only test what we compiled
588 - gross improvement to the test suite
589 - fix EXPORT_FAIL.
590 This work was all done by Roderick Schertler
591 <roderick@argon.org>. If you run Linux or
592 one of the other ualarm-less platoforms, and you like this
593 module, let Roderick know; without him, it still wouldn't
594 be working on those boxes...
595 - Makefile.PL: figure out what routines the OS has and
596 only build what we need. These bits were written by Jarkko
597 Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>. Again, gratitude is due...
598
5991.02 Mon Dec 30 08:00:00 1996
600 - HiRes.pm: update documentation to say what to do when missing
601 ualarm() and friends.
602 - README: update to warn that ualarm() and friends need to exist
603
6041.01 Fri Oct 17 08:00:00 1996
605 - Makefile.PL: make XSPROTOARGS => '-noprototyopes'
606 - HiRes.pm: put blank line between __END__ and =head1 so that
607 pod2man works.
608
6091.00 Tue Sep 03 13:00:00 1996
610 - original version; created by h2xs 1.16