CLOCKS_PER_SEC

#define CLOCKS_PER_SEC /*implementation defined*/

Expands to an expression (not necessarily a compile-time constant) of type clock_t equal to the number of clock ticks per second, as returned by clock().

Notes

POSIX defines CLOCKS_PER_SEC as one million, regardless of the actual precision of clock.

Until standardized as CLOCKS_PER_SEC in C89, this macro was sometimes known by its IEEE std 1003.1-1988 name CLK_TCK: that name was not included in C89 and was removed from POSIX itself in 1996 over ambiguity with _SC_CLK_TCK, which gives number of clocks per second for the function times()).

References

• C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011):
• 7.27.1/2 Components of time (p: 388)
• C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999):
• 7.23.1/2 Components of time (p: 338)
• C89/C90 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1990):
• 4.12.1 Components of time

See also