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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: va_start without the first argument?
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raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) writes:
> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
>> On 13/03/17 18:54, BartC wrote:
>> > (Just yesterday, I had to need to wait a second or so before proceeding
>> > in a bit of code. I couldn't just use a loop counting to a billion, as
>> > this was gcc on Linux (so no alternatives), and it would just disregard
>> > the loop. Things such as sleep() were not practical, I ended up using
>> > getchar() then waiting for someone to press Enter.
>> >
>> > It gets silly when you have to fight the compiler to stop it ignoring
>> > your intentions.)
>> 
>> <http://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/volatile>
>
> Never mind volatile, which is a, ahem, non-stable resource - whatever
> happened to <time.h>!?

<time.h> has no sleep function.  The POSIX sleep() function is declared
in <unistd.h>.  (I have no idea why sleep() would not be practical for
BartC's requirements.)

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