Is there a sleep function in dynamic C?

Rabbit Rabbit Software
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I used the below loop to do a blocking delay for a couple of hundred milliseconds. Is there a single function (like “sleep”) that can do this?

delay = 200;
start_time = MS_TIMER;
while (MS_TIMER - start_time < delay);
// Continue

Thank you,
David

2

Yes, DelayMS / DelaySec / DelayTicks

(From the Function Reference)
DelayMs
int DelayMs( long delayms );
DESCRIPTION
Millisecond time mechanism for the costatement waitfor constructs. The initial call to this
function starts the timing. The function returns zero and continues to return zero until the number
of milliseconds specified has passed.
Note that milliseconds timing starts immediately, without waiting for the current millisecond to
elapse. In the case that the current millisecond is just about to end, the perceived elapsed time may
be as much as 1 millisecond shorter than the requested delay.
PARAMETERS
delayms The number of milliseconds to wait.
RETURN VALUE
1: The specified number of milliseconds have elapsed.
0: The specified number of milliseconds have not elapsed.
LIBRARY
COSTATE.LIB

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