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Subject: Re: error getting the current time stamp
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:34:12 -0700
From: Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu>

Someone wrote:

  > Hi,I 'm getting some error getting the current timestamp.
  > The error is
  > 
  > mm2.cpp:20: error: expected constructor, destructor, or type conversion
  > before '(' token
  > mm2.cpp:21: error: expected constructor, destructor, or type conversion
  > before '=' token
  > *** Error code 1
  > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `mm2.o'
  > 
  > 
  > 
  > struct timeval t;                                  <line 19>
  > gettimeofday(&t, NULL);                      <line 20>
  > start_time=t.tv_sec;                            <line 21>
  > 
  > 
  > i included sys/time.h .
  > 
  > I dont understand what error it is...

Hmm... I just tried this and it worked for me.

You probably should come see me during office hour today!
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Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>