[SDL] SDL_GetTicks() goes backwards - blame assigned

Daniel Phillips phillips at arcor.de
Wed Dec 25 09:16:00 PST 2002


On Wednesday 25 December 2002 14:52, David Olofson wrote:
> > If you find the bug in glibc, let me know...I'm genuinely curious
> > as to why that happens
>
> Well, if there's no NTP (or similar), this seems rather interesting,
> indeed... Frequent resync with the hardware RTC...?

That would be a buggy resync then.  To resync, you slow or speed up the
clock.  You would never set it backwards or jump it forward more than
a tick, that would be a "reset".

--
Daniel




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