This requires use of standard C library support for the clock_gettime() function. This returns time as a data-structure (struct timespec) that includes the current time in seconds and nano-seconds. Call this one time before the section of code to evaluate and once after and then take a difference of the end time versus the start time to figure out the time taken in the section of code.
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struc timespec timespec_diff(struct timespec end, struct timespec start)
{
}
void testThis()
{
int i;
struct timespec start, end, diff;
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clock_gettime(0, &start);
for (i = 0; i < 100000; i++)
{
x = i * 45;
}
clock_gettime(0, &end);
diff = timespec_diff(end, start);
printf(“Section of code took %u seconds %d nano-seconds\n”, diff.tv_sec, diff.tv_nsec);
}