From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 1 07:33:19 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA18578 for current-outgoing; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 07:33:19 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA18573 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 07:33:13 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA01193; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 10:33:04 -0500 Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 10:33:04 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" Message-Id: <9511011533.AA01193@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Time problems In-Reply-To: <199511010908.BAA09757@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> References: <199511010723.SAA20983@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199511010908.BAA09757@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > I have hooked clock synth chips to high precission (12 to 15) digit > frequency counters and believe me there are significant digits in > that 1E6 area that is being truncated. It is also the cause of > bogus dmesg crap like: > CPU: 99-MHz Pentium 735\\90 or 815\\100 (Pentium-class CPU) When I have time to sit down and figure out a reasonable value to use, I plan to convert the calculation to use fixed-point arithmetic. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant