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seven-dev

Reputation: 1393

sleep() function not working?

I'm using GNU GCC compiler in Code::Blocks on Windows. Why doesn't sleep(seconds) work here? I've tried it using library and it works fine. Thanks.

Edit: By "doesn't work" I mean, doesn't compile. Sorry.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
    char * c = (char *) malloc(sizeof(char)*50);
    if(--argc>0){
        printf("POTATO: \n");
        while(argc>=1){
            printf("- %s\n", argv[argc]);
            sleep(10);
            argc--;
        }
        printf("\n");
    }

    printf("A\n");
    scanf("%s", c);
    printf("What you wrote: %s\n", c);
    scanf("%s", c);
    return 0;
}

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4428

Answers (2)

VIKRANT VERMA
VIKRANT VERMA

Reputation: 64

because command line argument argc is 1. so if condition is not working, use print statement before if() condition.

Upvotes: 0

alk
alk

Reputation: 70931

Assuming "doesn't work means "doesn't compile":

sleep() is IX'ish. The appropriate win32 call would be Sleep(). The difference is that the latter takes ms, but s, as sleep() does.

To have portable code writing your own wrapper like this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/14818830/694576 might help.

Upvotes: 4

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