Storage size unknown for struct timeval in C

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Hi I need help resolving this error in the following C code. The error is

error: storage size of 't0' isn't known         
error: storage size of 't1' isn't known

and I include the following

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

void timer ( void (*f) (), char letter){ //function used to calculate average runtime
  int i = 0;


  struct timeval t0;
  struct timeval t1;
  gettimeofday(&t0,0);//takes start time
  for (i = 0; i < 100; i++){
    f(); // runs function
  }
  gettimeofday(&t1,0); //takes end time

  long seconds =  t1.tv_sec - t0.tv_sec;
  long  microseconds = (t1.tv_usec - t0.tv_usec);
  seconds = (1000000)*seconds + microseconds;
//  printf("Total time elapsed for workload %c: %d in microseconds\n", letter, seconds );
  printf("Average time elapsed for workload %c: %d %d/%d in microseconds\n", letter, seconds/100, seconds%100, 100 );//prints the average time as a whole number and then a fraction
}
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1 Answers

The definition of struct timeval is present in time.h so you had to include this header.

 #include <sys/time.h>   //you don't include this header

time.h:

struct timeval {
   time_t      tv_sec;   // Number of whole seconds of elapsed time
   long int    tv_usec;  // Number of microseconds of rest of elapsed time minus tv_sec. Always less than one million
};
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