Subject: bug#34527: 27.0.50; Cygwin now has timer_getoverrun

From: Ken Brown <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:14:35 +0000

On 2/18/2019 11:21 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Ken Brown <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 15:16:32 +0000
>>
>> The latest release of Cygwin supports the timer_getoverrun function, so
>> there's no longer a need for the workaround in profiler.c that defines
>> timer_getoverrun as a macro.  The attached patch causes the function to
>> be used rather than the macro when it exists.
>>
>> OK for master?
> 
> LGTM, thanks.
> 
> Is there any user-visible effect of this change?

I don't think so.  I think it simply means that profiling will potentially be 
more accurate.  That's probably not NEWSworthy.

Ken