Gomoku: limited time to search

Question

I'm creating a C program to play Gomoku. It uses Minimax search to decide on the best move. However, it can only search for the best move for 10 seconds. How to I determine when my search function has spent 10 seconds searching. If you could provide me with either an example or a link to the documentation that would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

#include <time.h>
time_t start_time = time(NULL);
while (((int)(time(NULL) - start_time)) < 10) {
  //search
}

That is, what comes to my mind. It is not tested though.