[Cialug] Slightly OT, .. C coding

Scott Yates Scott at yatesframe.com
Mon Aug 22 15:14:51 CDT 2016


I am curious as well.  That seems like something that might have been
solved at the level of a "framework" or "library" maybe?

What is considered best practice here?

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 3:02 PM, Dave Weis <djweis at sjdjweis.com> wrote:

> Platform?
>
> I would generally enable buffering on the port and use either a timer or
> interrupt to put the data into a fifo. Possibly blocking I/O also. Need
> more and better description of what you're trying to accomplish.
>
> On Monday, August 22, 2016, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>
> > We had some simple programs a while back using timing loops to wait for
> > RS232 data, but we found that the timing loop had to be 400-500 mS to
> > ensure accurate data reception.
> >
> > May have a similar application that would require sub-second performance,
> > so might there be any C developers that have solved similar problems?
> >
> >         TIA!
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> >
> >         Lee
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