Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Sep 1998 04:33:03 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: Porting Microsoft C to Linux |
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On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Colin Coe wrote:
>I am working on a driver for the ACL serial cards. The manufacturer >(StarGate, now defunct) has supplied Microsoft C code as examples on how >the cards are programmed. I have been working through porting this code >to run under Linux, but there are some functions I am not sure about. >The _bios_timeofday function, below, is causing some confusion. > > long timeout, currtime; >... > _bios_timeofday(_TIME_GETCLOCK, &timeout); > >I have tried replacing it with gettimeofday() but I am not sure what >TIME_GETCLOCK does so I don't know if I am doing the right thing. > >Any ideas? > >Colin > >PS. This code also includes conio.h and bios.h, neither of which exists >under Linux.
conio.h is available as a lib for Linux, however I heavily recommend porting the driver to NOT require conio.h. bios.h is probably just required for the _bios_whatever() functions. These can be easily ported by just looking at the MS or Borland manuals regarding these functions.
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