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(...) I would strongly suggest changing this to while(1) msleep(bignumber);. Otherwise you're hogging the processor doing nothing important, which could do bad things to any compute-intensive tasks you may have going. It'll also use slightly less (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi Ross (...) you (...) What are the advantages and disadvantages of this method as opposed to the one I used? mike (23 years ago, 18-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Note also since bumper_task() is an infinite loop, and you never use pid1, you could save one thread by doing this: int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { pid2 = execi (&left_task, 0, NULL, PRIO_NORMAL+2, DEFAULT_STACK_SIZE); pid3 = execi (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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;-) That worked a treat, thanks Michael. (thanks for the other little corrections in the code too). mike (...) Mike, (...) your subroutines and then you leave main()! Leaving main means (...) memory is freed. The following will do the job: (...) (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi Mike, your problem is not because of an error in legOS. But what you do is that you start your subroutines and then you leave main()! Leaving main means that all your allocated memory is freed. The following will do the job: ---...--- cut here (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Please, in the future, cross post to multiple groups instead of separate messages. You can cross post in the web interface by entering all of the newsgroups separated by commas. If posting via NNTP, most newsreaders allow you to sellect (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Anyone who is a regular user of IRC can join my channel #LegoMindstorms (on dalnet). Coma and chat or give/recieve assistance. If you join you are welcome to Ops because anyone in here will know more about Mindstorms than me as i know almost (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Anyone who is a regular user of IRC can join my channel #LegoMindstorms (on dalnet). Coma and chat or give/recieve assistance. If you join you are welcome to Ops because anyone in here will know more about Mindstorms than me as i know almost (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Anyone who is a regular user of IRC can join my channel #LegoMindstorms (on dalnet). Coma and chat or give/recieve assistance. If you join you are welcome to Ops because anyone in here will know more about Mindstorms than me as i know almost (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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Anyone who is a regular user of IRC can join my channel #LegoMindstorms (on dalnet). Coma and chat or give/recieve assistance. If you join you are welcome to Ops because anyone in here will know more about Mindstorms than me as i know almost (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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