Issue #9079: Added _PyTime_gettimeofday(_PyTime_timeval *tp) to C API

exposed in Python.h.  This function is similar to POSIX
gettimeofday(struct timeval *tp), but available on platforms without
gettimeofday().

Include/Python.h

@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@
 #error "PYMALLOC_DEBUG requires WITH_PYMALLOC"
 #endif
 #include "pymath.h"
+#include "pytime.h"
 #include "pymem.h"
 
 #include "object.h"

Include/pytime.h

+#ifndef Py_PYTIME_H
+#define Py_PYTIME_H
+
+#include "pyconfig.h" /* include for defines */
+
+/**************************************************************************
+Symbols and macros to supply platform-independent interfaces to time related
+functions and constants
+**************************************************************************/
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+#ifdef HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY
+typedef struct timeval _PyTime_timeval;
+#else
+typedef struct {
+    time_t       tv_sec;   /* seconds since Jan. 1, 1970 */
+    long         tv_usec;  /* and microseconds */
+} _PyTime_timeval;
+#endif
+
+/* Similar to POSIX gettimeofday but cannot fail.  If system gettimeofday
+ * fails or is not available, fall back to lower resolution clocks.
+ */
+PyAPI_FUNC(void) _PyTime_gettimeofday(_PyTime_timeval *tp);
+
+/* Dummy to force linking. */
+PyAPI_FUNC(void) _PyTime_Init(void);
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif /* Py_PYTIME_H */
+#ifndef Py_PYTIME_H
+#define Py_PYTIME_H
+
+#include "pyconfig.h" /* include for defines */
+
+/**************************************************************************
+Symbols and macros to supply platform-independent interfaces to time related
+functions and constants
+**************************************************************************/
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+#ifdef HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY
+typedef struct timeval _PyTime_timeval;
+#else
+typedef struct {
+    time_t       tv_sec;   /* seconds since Jan. 1, 1970 */
+    long         tv_usec;  /* and microseconds */
+} _PyTime_timeval;
+#endif
+
+/* Similar to POSIX gettimeofday but cannot fail.  If system gettimeofday
+ * fails or is not available, fall back to lower resolution clocks.
+ */
+PyAPI_FUNC(void) _PyTime_gettimeofday(_PyTime_timeval *tp);
+
+/* Dummy to force linking. */
+PyAPI_FUNC(void) _PyTime_Init(void);
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif /* Py_PYTIME_H */

Makefile.pre.in

@@ -314,6 +314,7 @@ PYTHON_OBJS=	\
 		Python/pymath.o \
 		Python/pystate.o \
 		Python/pythonrun.o \
+		Python/pytime.o \
 		Python/structmember.o \
 		Python/symtable.o \
 		Python/sysmodule.o \
@@ -696,6 +697,7 @@ PYTHON_HEADERS= \
 		Include/pystrtod.h \
 		Include/pythonrun.h \
 		Include/pythread.h \
+		Include/pytime.h \
 		Include/rangeobject.h \
 		Include/setobject.h \
 		Include/sliceobject.h \

Modules/_datetimemodule.c

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 #include <time.h>
 
-#include "timefuncs.h"
+#include "_time.h"
 
 /* Differentiate between building the core module and building extension
  * modules.
@@ -4166,37 +4166,10 @@ datetime_from_timestamp(PyObject *cls, TM_FUNC f, double timestamp,
 static PyObject *
 datetime_best_possible(PyObject *cls, TM_FUNC f, PyObject *tzinfo)
 {
-#ifdef HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY
-    struct timeval t;
-
-#ifdef GETTIMEOFDAY_NO_TZ
-    gettimeofday(&t);
-#else
-    gettimeofday(&t, (struct timezone *)NULL);
-#endif
+    _PyTime_timeval t;
+    _PyTime_gettimeofday(&t);
     return datetime_from_timet_and_us(cls, f, t.tv_sec, (int)t.tv_usec,
                                       tzinfo);
-
-#else   /* ! HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY */
-    /* No flavor of gettimeofday exists on this platform.  Python's
-     * time.time() does a lot of other platform tricks to get the
-     * best time it can on the platform, and we're not going to do
-     * better than that (if we could, the better code would belong
-     * in time.time()!)  We're limited by the precision of a double,
-     * though.
-     */
-    PyObject *time;
-    double dtime;
-
-    time = time_time();
-    if (time == NULL)
-        return NULL;
-    dtime = PyFloat_AsDouble(time);
-    Py_DECREF(time);
-    if (dtime == -1.0 && PyErr_Occurred())
-        return NULL;
-    return datetime_from_timestamp(cls, f, dtime, tzinfo);
-#endif  /* ! HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY */
 }
 
 /* Return best possible local time -- this isn't constrained by the

Modules/timemodule.c

@@ -3,22 +3,10 @@
 
 #include "Python.h"
 #include "structseq.h"
-#include "timefuncs.h"
+#include "_time.h"
 
 #define TZNAME_ENCODING "utf-8"
 
-#ifdef __APPLE__
-#if defined(HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY) && defined(HAVE_FTIME)
-  /*
-   * floattime falls back to ftime when getttimeofday fails because the latter
-   * might fail on some platforms. This fallback is unwanted on MacOSX because
-   * that makes it impossible to use a binary build on OSX 10.4 on earlier
-   * releases of the OS. Therefore claim we don't support ftime.
-   */
-# undef HAVE_FTIME
-#endif
-#endif
-
 #include <ctype.h>
 
 #ifdef HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H
@@ -29,13 +17,6 @@
 #include <io.h>
 #endif
 
-#ifdef HAVE_FTIME
-#include <sys/timeb.h>
-#if !defined(MS_WINDOWS) && !defined(PYOS_OS2)
-extern int ftime(struct timeb *);
-#endif /* MS_WINDOWS */
-#endif /* HAVE_FTIME */
-
 #if defined(__WATCOMC__) && !defined(__QNX__)
 #include <i86.h>
 #else
@@ -946,44 +927,12 @@ PyInit_time(void)
     return m;
 }
 
-
-/* Implement floattime() for various platforms */
-
 static double
 floattime(void)
 {
-    /* There are three ways to get the time:
-      (1) gettimeofday() -- resolution in microseconds
-      (2) ftime() -- resolution in milliseconds
-      (3) time() -- resolution in seconds
-      In all cases the return value is a float in seconds.
-      Since on some systems (e.g. SCO ODT 3.0) gettimeofday() may
-      fail, so we fall back on ftime() or time().
-      Note: clock resolution does not imply clock accuracy! */
-#ifdef HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY
-    {
-        struct timeval t;
-#ifdef GETTIMEOFDAY_NO_TZ
-        if (gettimeofday(&t) == 0)
-            return (double)t.tv_sec + t.tv_usec*0.000001;
-#else /* !GETTIMEOFDAY_NO_TZ */
-        if (gettimeofday(&t, (struct timezone *)NULL) == 0)
-            return (double)t.tv_sec + t.tv_usec*0.000001;
-#endif /* !GETTIMEOFDAY_NO_TZ */
-    }
-
-#endif /* !HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY */
-    {
-#if defined(HAVE_FTIME)
-        struct timeb t;
-        ftime(&t);
-        return (double)t.time + (double)t.millitm * (double)0.001;
-#else /* !HAVE_FTIME */
-        time_t secs;
-        time(&secs);
-        return (double)secs;
-#endif /* !HAVE_FTIME */
-    }
+    _PyTime_timeval t;
+    _PyTime_gettimeofday(&t);
+    return (double)t.tv_sec + t.tv_usec*0.000001;
 }
 
 

PCbuild/pythoncore.vcproj

@@ -875,6 +875,10 @@
 				RelativePath="..\Include\pymath.h"
 				>
 			</File>
+			<File
+				RelativePath="..\Include\pytime.h"
+				>
+			</File>
 			<File
 				RelativePath="..\Include\pymem.h"
 				>
@@ -1767,6 +1771,10 @@
 				RelativePath="..\Python\pymath.c"
 				>
 			</File>
+			<File
+				RelativePath="..\Python\pytime.c"
+				>
+			</File>
 			<File
 				RelativePath="..\Python\pystate.c"
 				>

Python/pythonrun.c

@@ -268,6 +268,8 @@ Py_InitializeEx(int install_sigs)
     /* Initialize _warnings. */
     _PyWarnings_Init();
 
+    _PyTime_Init();
+
     initfsencoding();
 
     if (install_sigs)

Python/pytime.c

+#include "Python.h"
+
+#ifdef __APPLE__
+#if defined(HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY) && defined(HAVE_FTIME)
+  /*
+   * _PyTime_gettimeofday falls back to ftime when getttimeofday fails because the latter
+   * might fail on some platforms. This fallback is unwanted on MacOSX because
+   * that makes it impossible to use a binary build on OSX 10.4 on earlier
+   * releases of the OS. Therefore claim we don't support ftime.
+   */
+# undef HAVE_FTIME
+#endif
+#endif
+
+#ifdef HAVE_FTIME
+#include <sys/timeb.h>
+#if !defined(MS_WINDOWS) && !defined(PYOS_OS2)
+extern int ftime(struct timeb *);
+#endif /* MS_WINDOWS */
+#endif /* HAVE_FTIME */
+
+void
+_PyTime_gettimeofday(_PyTime_timeval *tp)
+{
+    /* There are three ways to get the time:
+      (1) gettimeofday() -- resolution in microseconds
+      (2) ftime() -- resolution in milliseconds
+      (3) time() -- resolution in seconds
+      In all cases the return value in a timeval struct.
+      Since on some systems (e.g. SCO ODT 3.0) gettimeofday() may
+      fail, so we fall back on ftime() or time().
+      Note: clock resolution does not imply clock accuracy! */
+#ifdef HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY
+#ifdef GETTIMEOFDAY_NO_TZ
+    if (gettimeofday(tp) == 0)
+        return;
+#else /* !GETTIMEOFDAY_NO_TZ */
+    if (gettimeofday(tp, (struct timezone *)NULL) == 0)
+        return;
+#endif /* !GETTIMEOFDAY_NO_TZ */
+#endif /* !HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY */
+#if defined(HAVE_FTIME)
+    {
+        struct timeb t;
+        ftime(&t);
+        tp->tv_sec = t.time;
+        tp->tv_usec = t.millitm * 1000;
+    }
+#else /* !HAVE_FTIME */
+    tp->tv_sec = time(NULL);
+    tp->tv_usec = 0;
+#endif /* !HAVE_FTIME */
+    return;
+}
+
+void
+_PyTime_Init()
+{
+    /* Do nothing.  Needed to force linking. */
+}