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12 years, 11 months ago.

Question on wait() within a helper function

Hello, I just recently started using mbed, and I had a quick question.

If you use the wait() within a subfunction like the following example:

void hamster() {wait(5);}

int main() { while(1) { hamster(); wait(1); } }

would the main loop wait 5 seconds for the hamster() to finish before it waits 1 sec? Is the total delay of the while loop 6 seconds, or 1+minuscule sec, or exactly 1 sec?

Thanks for your time!

1 Answer

Erik -
12 years, 11 months ago.

The total delay will be 6 seconds, it will wait until your function is finished.

If you dont want that, you can have a look at the RTOS library: http://mbed.org/handbook/RTOS

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