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

[Matthew MacClary]

On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 09:11:20AM -0700, Micah Carrick wrote:

void delayms(uint16_t millis) {
 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?

    Yes, people just need delays longer than a few milliseconds.

> Wouldn't the function above actually delay longer than millis mS
> since the while and declaration take up clock cycles?

    This is of course true. If your code can accommodate busy-waiting
for milliseconds at a time, then the extra few instructions in the
outer loop probably aren't a big deal.

-Matt