From: Chris Gehlker Date: 2002-01-08T10:58:45+09:00 Subject: Re: Ambiguous result making the latest snapshot. On 1/7/02 3:59 PM, "Phil Tomson" wrote: > In article , > Chris Gehlker wrote: >> Making the latest snapshot on MOSX 10.1.2 I get: > > What is MOSX? I don't see it in the RAA. > >> "make: warning: Clock skew detected. Your build may be incomplete." >> But "make test" says: says it succeeded >> >> Do I need to worry about the warning. >> >> BTW what is "clock skew" anyway? >> > > 'clock skew' is a term related to digital hardware design. In a design > with a single clock routed to potentially hundreds or thousands of > flip-flops it is > possible (probable) for the clock to arrive at some flip-flops earlier > than it does for others due to the differences in routing delay for the > clock net. The clock skew is defined as the delta between the earliest > flip-flop and the latest flip-flop - if the clock skew exceeds the setup > time for your flip-flops then you have a problem (potentially > metastability, erroneous data ). > > But you're getting some kind of 'clock skew' error from a makefile?! Yeah. See the response to the next message. -- Laws are the spider's webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape. -Solon, statesman (c. 638-c558 BCE)