[Solved] why is elapsedtime giving me an output of 1? [closed]

Question

You have

    cout << "Your elapsed time is " << elapsedtime <<endl;

Did you mean

    cout << "Your elapsed time is " << elapsedtime(time1, time2) <<endl;

Update

For some reason,

    cout << "Your elapsed time is " << elapsedtime <<endl;

does not produce a compiler error under g++ 4.7.3 even though the intent is to use elapsedtime(time1, time2).

I was able to successfully compile and build:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int elapsedtime(int time1, int time2)
{
   return 0;
}

int main()
{
   cout << "Your elapsed time is " << elapsedtime <<endl;
}

Perhaps another SO post is needed to answer the question, “How does g++ not report error with the above code?”.

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