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+/* Copyright (C) 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ This file is part of the GNU C Library.
+
+ The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
+ published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
+ License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+ The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ Library General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
+ License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not,
+ write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+ Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
+
+#include <sys/time.h>
+
+/* This implementation uses the TSC register in modern (i586 and up) IA-32
+ processors (most modern clones also provide it). Since we need the
+ resolution of the clock and since determining this is not cheap, we
+ cache the value. But this means that systems with processors running
+ at different speeds or process migration to machines with slower or
+ faster processors will not work without changes. */
+
+
+/* Function to determine processor frequency. */
+extern unsigned long long int __get_glockfreq (void);
+
+/* Clock frequency of the processor. We make it a 64-bit variable
+ because some jokers are already playing with processors with more
+ than 4GHz. */
+static unsigned long long int freq;
+
+
+/* We add an limitation here: we assume that the machine is not up as
+ long as it takes to wrap-around the 64-bit timestamp counter. On a
+ 4GHz machine it would take 136 years of uptime to wrap around so
+ this "limitation" is not severe. */
+#define EXTRA_CLOCK_CASES \
+ case __CLOCK_HIGHRES: \
+ { \
+ unsigned long long int tsc; \
+ \
+ if (__builtin_expect (freq != 0, 0)) \
+ { \
+ /* This can only happen if we haven't initialized the `freq' \
+ variable yet. Do this now. We don't have to protect this \
+ code against multiple execution since all of them should \
+ lead to the same result. */ \
+ freq = __get_clockfreq (); \
+ if (__builtin_expect (freq == 0, 0)) \
+ /* Something went wrong. */ \
+ break; \
+ } \
+ \
+ /* Get the current counter. */ \
+ asm volatile ("rdtsc" : "=A" (tsc)); \
+ \
+ /* Compute the seconds. */ \
+ tp->tv_sec = tsc / freq; \
+ \
+ /* And the nanoseconds. This computation should be stable until \
+ we get machines with about 16GHz frequency. */ \
+ tp->tv_nsec = ((tsc % freq) * 1000000000ULL) / freq; \
+ } \
+ break;
+
+#include <sysdeps/unix/clock_gettime.c>