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sigzero on July 15, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Vim's 400 line function to wait for keyboard input

> he correct solution is to use a monotonically increasing time function, such Linux’s clock_gettime() or OS X’s mach_absolute_time().

At the expense of supporting FEWER platforms.

roghummal on July 16, 2015 [–]

Another #ifdef would fix that!

A wrapper function could hide the extra #ifdef, taking it out of OP's count. A macro defined during compilation would be even better|harder to understand.

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