do_gettimeofday()undefined reference

[Cameron Simpson]

On 03Oct2009 15:22, anu4 s <arpalla at gmail.com> wrote:
| I am new to linux and facing a simple compile problem. I have written a C
| file which is using the do_gettimeofday() function.
| 
| #include <linux/time.h>
| #include <stdio.h>
| 
| main()
| {
|    struct timeval start;
| 
|    do_gettimeofday(&start);
|    printf ("%d", start.tv_usec);
| }
| 
| gcc a1.c --
|  undefined reference to `do_gettimeofday'

Are you sure it's not spelt "gettimeofday" ?

What makes you think there's a "do_" in there? (Sorry, my Linux box is
off just at present, but I'm going to be _really_ surprised if anything
in the main library is spelt "do_*".)

Cheers,
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> DoD#743
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