RE: [avr-gcc-list] for loop problem

[Adrian Cottle]

I have tryed changing the flag rto static volatile and volatile. this seems 
to have corrected the UART loop problem but not the other loop problem

while(Timeout_Flag != 0xFF && Element_Pulse_Flag != 0xFF)
  {
        int i;
        for(i=0;i<10;i++)
        {
        //msdelay(1);
        }

  }

this still needs the delay in to work

any idea?

thanks

adrian


Adrian,

> I have the function below (well part of it) and it waits in a loop until
> the UART flag is flagged.  If i put a 100ms delay in or do something like 
> send a byte to the uart it works fine, but as soon as i leave a empty for 
> loop it crashed and needs resettting.
...
> int Pulse_Handler(void)
> {
> int i;
> uart_send_byte(33);
>   while(UART_Flag == 0)
>   {
>       msdelay(1);
>  //uart_send_byte(46);
>   }
>   UART_Flag = 0 ;                             
>   uart_send_byte(85);

You need to define UART_Flag as volatile. If you look at the generated code 
you can see that without volatile it checks only once for UART_Flag and 
runs than into an endless loop. With the volatile you can see that the 
compare is included into the loop.

Volkmar
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