[avr-gcc-list] avr-libc _delay routines

[Micah Carrick]

I noticed that a lot of code out there has a function something like this:

void delayms(uint16_t millis) {
 uint16_t loop;
 while ( millis ) {
   _delay_ms(1);
   millis--;
 }
}

Is this function used because of the limitation of _delay_ms()?  I read 
that it's max is "The maximal possible delay is 262.14 ms / F_CPU in 
MHz." Does that mean that at 8 MHz, the max delay is 32 mS?  And that's 
where that other routine comes in?  Wouldn't the function above actually 
delay longer than millis mS since the while and declaration take up 
clock cycles?

- Micah