How to eleminate 'clock' error generated during code generation.

Hi all In my model I need to know what time of the day it is. So I have written a matlab function that uses matlab function 'clock'.I get back an array, which i read to extract the time of the day. The problem starts only when I try to generate c code from the model, I get the following error :'Failed to eliminate a call to the MATLAB function 'clock'. For non-simulation builds, calls to unsupported MATLAB functions are eliminated if they do not affect function outputs.'

What can I do as to eliminate this error and be able to read in system time and also be able to generate c code with it?

[Chethan]

Would you please post a part of your code from where you are getting error

[Ashwini]

This is a part of my code where the error occurs

coder.extrinsic('clock');

strc = zeros(6,1,'double'); strc = fix(clock);

Answer 1

[Vishal Rane]

Refer this list of functions allowed from code gen perspective :

func list

One way would be to use a C/C++ equivalent of the 'clock' function in the form of sfunc.