From: Ken <shiva@compuserve.com>
To: c++-embedded@cygnus.com
Subject: timer idioms in embedded system
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 21:10:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <35931852.1509@compuserve.com> (raw)
I'm trying to come up with a good timer idiom that doesn't use much
interrupt time.
My current code (single-threaded, no RTOS) uses an array of words to
represent global timers. The timer interrupt decrements any non-zero
timers. Code that wants to use a timer sets it to a non-zero tick count
and then waits for it to decrement to zero with a simple "while (timer)
;".
I'd like to change this to use a single counter incremented by the
interrupt. Client code would wait for the counter to increment to a
desired value. Example wait code might be
unsigned long expire_time = clock() + delay;
while (clock() < expire_time) /* wait */;
How should I handle rollover? I expect the counter to be 32-bit, and the
interrupt tick to be 1 millisecond. The rollover should occur about
every 46 days.
It seems like I could declare the 32-bit values as signed and do
something like
long clock();
long expire_time = clock() + delay;
while ((clock() - expire_time) < 0) /* wait */;
Is this reasonable?
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Ken
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1998-06-25 21:10 Ken [this message]
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1998-07-03 0:49 ` Ken
1998-06-26 7:13 Dave Hansen
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