Hi Frank,
Agreed, you do have to be able to read “header” files and “translate” C types
and structures to their COBOL equivalents.
I did notice you had not set the clock_id value, but I had already looked up in
the C header file that CLOCK_MONOTONIC is binary zero and figured you just got
lucky on the contents of WORKING-STORAGE for that field. Isn’t that runtime
option expensive (in CPU time) to use?
As it happens, there are a couple of sites to which I have access that do have
the most recent COBOL V6.4 updates (“P231130” in the heading line), and I have
recently been playing around with the new FUNCTION prototype capabilities.
Neat stuff for sure.
BTW, what Binder SYSLIB library is needed to get those C runtime stubs linked
into a COBOL calling program? CEE.SCEELKED or others? Do we need to use one of
those crazy-looking “side deck” thingamabobs?
Peter
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Subject: Re: Nanosecond resolution timestamps for HLL's?
You have to have some knowledge of C to be able to do it. For example, I had
to look at /usr/include/time.h to be able to known what types and sizes of the
data fields are needed for COBOL. And the whole __errno thing, I'm not sure
how I figured that out. It was some time ago.
Oh, by the way, I seem to have forgotten to explicitly set clock_id. Luckily I
have the runtime setting on which initiates working storage to low-values, and
the clock_id value CLOCK_MONOTONIC is binary zero. CLOCK_REALTIME, fwiw, is
binary 1. I got these from time.h as well. Anyway, I'd add those as 88 levels
under clock_id and then set CLOCK_MONOTONIC to true before calling
clock_gettime().
If you are lucky enough to have the most recent fix pack for Enterprise COBOL
v6.4 you should be able to utilize function prototypes. I don't have it, but
I've been aware of this feature from the COBOL 2014 standard, so I think you'd
do something like this:
id division.
function-id.
Clock-GetTime as 'clock_gettime' is prototype
entry—name is longmixed
entry-interface is static.
data division.
linkage section.
01 clock-id pic 9(9) comp-5.
01 time-spec.
05 seconds pic 9(9) comp-5.
05 nanoseconds pic 9(9) comp-5.
01 result-code pic 9(9) comp-5.
procedure division using value clock-id
reference time-spec
returning result-code.
end function Clock-GetTime.
This would be coded ahead of the main program. Or better yet, placed in a
copybook and "COPYed" in at the top of the main program
You'd then add to the calling program:
configuration section.
repository.
function Clock-GetTime.
Then invoke the C routine like this:
if Clock-GetTime(clock_id timespec) = zero
[...happy path here...]
else
[...sad path here...]
end-if
You don't have to code the repository entry if you just want to add the
FUNCTION keyword before Clock-GetTime, e.g.
if function Clock-GetTime(...) ...
You'd could also remove the "process pgmname(longmixed) nodynam", if you like,
because those are handled by the enrty-name and entry-interface clauses of the
function prototype definition.
Have fun!
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Thank you very much Frank. I will try this out on my system.
Would that such clear examples were available from IBM.
Peter
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Try this.
process pgmname(longmixed) nodynam
id division.
program-id. 'cgettime_test'.
data division.
working-storage section.
01 errno-ref pointer.
01 strerror-ref pointer.
01 len pic s9(9) comp-5.
01 display-x.
05 pic x occurs 0 to 1025 depending on len.
01 clock_id pic s9(9) comp-5.
01 timespec.
05 secs pic s9(9) comp-5.
05 nsecs pic s9(9) comp-5.
01 rc pic s9(9) comp-5.
linkage section.
01 errno pic s9(9) comp-5.
01 h_errno pic s9(9) comp-5.
01 strerror pic x(256).
procedure division.
call 'clock_gettime' using value clock_id
reference timespec
returning rc
if rc = zero
display 'seconds: ' secs
display 'nanoseconds:' nsecs
else
perform handle-error
end-if
goback.
handle-error.
call '__errno' returning errno-ref
set address of errno to errno-ref
call 'strerror' using value errno
returning strerror-ref
set address of strerror to strerror-ref
move 1025 to len
unstring strerror delimited by x'00'
into display-x count len
display quote display-x quote
exit.
end program 'cgettime_test'.
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My initial purpose is actually part of implementing COBOL-compatible min-heap
priority queue functions that return equal-priority nodes in FIFO insert order
when popped. A timestamp or some other monotonically increasing integer
tie-breaker provided with the input priority value is necessary to preserve
FIFO order when pushing new items into the queue. As Paul (gil) pointed out,
named counters might provide a similar function but would be far more
performance-expensive compared to a simple STCK value.
Yes, I am aware that STCK breaks at the epoch in 2038 (or is it 2042? I forget
now), which isn't ALL that far away. A MetalC implementation for STCK values
has been coded and works acceptably, as does of course a straight-forward
assembler implementation. Extension to use STCKE instead of STCK would be
trivial in either case, but of course that also doubles the space occupied by
the tiebreaker value. I would much prefer an IBM-maintained solution that
crosses the epoch barrier transparently.
A reasonably-well-performing implementation of the C function "clock_gettime()"
would probably do the trick, if it was callable from COBOL. David C. pointed
out in an earlier reply that IBM XL C now has this function, if I can figure
out how to invoke it from COBOL. IBM is not always very good at providing
illustrative examples for inter-language cases like this.
As for the actual business purpose, I'm not at liberty to discuss that.
Peter
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I don't understand how you will use this.
What is the business purpose?
On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 18:22:53 -0600 Peter Farley
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wrote:
:>I have been reviewing all the documentation I can find to provide nano-second
resolution timestamps from a calling HLL batch program. STCK and STCKE
instructions of course provide this (and more) resolution, but using them from
any HLL besides C/C++ requires an assembler subroutine (however simple that may
be for those of us who are already comfortable in assembler). In shops where
any new assembler functionality is proscribed or strongly discouraged can't or
would strongly prefer not to use assembler for this functionality.
:>The only HLL-callable function already provided in z/OS that I can find that
provides anything near that resolution is the LE Callable Services function
CEEGMT, but two calls to that service from a COBOL program in a row separated
by only a few calculations and a DISPLAY to SYSOUT produce identical values.
This is not good enough for high-volume processing needs. Every request for a
time value needs to generate a new higher value.
:>Is there any other place I am not yet looking which provides nano-second
resolution like STCK/STCKE and the linux function clock_gettime() besides an
assembler invocation of STCK/STCKE? z/OS Unix has not yet implemented the
clock_gettime() function anyway, so that is off the table. The calling HLL
here will be COBOL, so the C/C++ builtin functions "__stck" and "__stcke" are
not available. Would that they were, but they are not at this time. (Maybe
that calls for a new "idea" to IBM . . . ?)
:>HTH for any pointers or RTFM you can provide.
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