Re: Windows GTK hang 'not responding'

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 13:45 -0400, Derek Piper wrote:
> 	Hi,
> 
> 	Thanks to all for the helpful hints, even with my vague descriptions. 
> It turns out that it was a problem under Windows in getting the current 
> time. Using timeGetTime() from the multimedia timers I wanted to convert 
> it to microseconds in keeping with the value from gettimeofday that's 
> used in the rest of my program. Anyway, when multiplying that value by 
> 1000 and assigning it to a larger data type of 'long long' it multiplied 
> it within a single 32bit integer and overflowed it.

hint:

#include <sys/time.h>

struct timeval now, then, diff;
gettimeofday (&then, NULL);
...
gettimeofday (&now, NULL);
timersub (&now, &then, &diff);