Talking about delay library, Stef's old delay library had delay x cycles.A
delay based on MCU clock, should it not be added to delay library. Most
compilers do have that functionality.

Sunish

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Kyle <[email protected]> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:54:39 +0100, Joep Suijs wrote
> > Hi Matt,
> >
> > 2010/2/25 mattschinkel <[email protected]>:
> > > I use _usec_delay for everything because I do not like the delay
> > > library.
> > You can't argue about taste...
> >
> > > 1. I wish the delay library had a procedure that would work like
> > > _usec_delay, one procedure that does it all, from microseconds to
> > > seconds.
>
> This would be very difficult (read: impossible) to do efficiently if at
> all.
>
> > The problem is that it uses memory at each use. so 15 times
> > _usec_delay() means 15 times a delay loop. It is always inline.
>
> Right, but the overhead for many delays is negligible and could be
> outweighed
> by the overhead of a function call.
>
> > > Maybe Kyle can remove the "_" from _usec_delay
> > Please not. The underscore is appropriate for this procedure.
>
> There seems to be a misconception here. '_' just means, `provided by or for
> the compiler.' It doesn't mean no one else can use the name. I wanted a
> convention to avoid name collisions with existing code.
>
> This is much like all names beginning with 'str' are reserved in C.
>
> --kyle
>
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