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From: gil@snsys.com (Gil Jaysmith)
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.libraries
Subject: Re: Timers
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 16:01:04 GMT
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James Russell <jamesr@peace.co.nz> wrote:
>But don't the counters just 'count' at a given rate, and you have to
>check them to see where they've got up to? I.e, they don't cause
>interrupts?
>The prog manual tells you about them but the library pages don't give
>enough info on what parameters they take. If they can cause an interrupt,
>that you be great, but AFAICT the only parameter the lib functions
>use is one that resets the counter to a set value.

Sorry... didn't look hard enough at the manuals. I thought that since
they had some of the root counter functions they'd have SetRCnt as
well, which is where you'd normally specify you want an interrupt.

Interesting that the documentation mentions RCntCNT2 and RCntMdNOINTR,
though, since these are values you can pass to SetRCnt to control
whether you get interrupts. I wonder whether this was an accidental
omission. Anyone at SCEE want to comment? Or is this just another
manual error? (I begin to see what all you lot are whinging about.)

Anyway, looks like no spontaneous interrupts for you, squire :=(

- Gil