Enumerate the set of system clock types.
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Detailed Description
- Outline
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- Purpose:
- Enumerate the set of system clock types.
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- Classes:
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- Description:
- This component provides a namespace for the
enum
type bsls::SystemClockType::Enum
, which enumerates the set of system clock types. A bsls::SystemClockType
is particularly important when providing time-out values to synchronization methods where those time-outs must be consistent in environments where the system clocks may be changed.
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- Enumerators:
Name Description
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e_REALTIME System clock that returns the current wall time maintained by
the system, and which is affected by adjustments to the
system's clock (i.e., time values returned may jump
"forwards" and "backwards" as the current time-of-day is
changed on the system).
e_MONOTONIC System clock that returns the elapsed time since some
unspecified starting point in the past. The returned values
are monotonically non-decreasing, and are generally not
affected by changes to the system time.
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- Usage:
- This section illustrates intended use of this component.
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- Example 1: Basic Syntax:
- The following snippets of code provide a simple illustration of using
bsls::SystemClockType
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- First, we create a variable
value
of type bsls::SystemClockType::Enum
and initialize it with the enumerator value bsls::SystemClockType::e_MONOTONIC
: Now, we store the address of its ASCII representation in a pointer variable, asciiValue
, of type const char *
: Finally, we verify the value of asciiValue
: assert(0 == strcmp(asciiValue, "MONOTONIC"));