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TIME8
— Time function (64-bit)time(3)
). This value is suitable for passing to
CTIME
, GMTIME
, and LTIME
.
Warning: this intrinsic does not increase the range of the timing
values over that returned by time(3)
. On a system with a 32-bit
time(3)
, TIME8
will return a 32-bit value, even though
it is converted to a 64-bit INTEGER(8)
value. That means
overflows of the 32-bit value can still occur. Therefore, the values
returned by this intrinsic might be or become negative or numerically
less than previous values during a single run of the compiled program.
RESULT = TIME8()
INTEGER(8)
.