Delay

Making life black or white is a boring way to live. There is quite a lot of shades in between too...
I agree that there is more than one way to skin this cat, timer or assembler delay loop.
I also agree that, when long enough, delay by timer is preferrable.
HOWEVER I must insist that a delay loop in C is "delay some unknown time"
The only C delay loop I would consider (although ridiculous) acceptable would be to figure out how many cycles the most efficient compiler would use and apply that where a delay is only specified as "not less than" and longer delay than minimum is no problem.

a footnote on asembler delays
that should ALWAYS have the following
$IF (clock == xxx)
$else
change the code here
$endif

Erik

Making life black or white is a boring way to live. There is quite a lot of shades in between too...
I agree that there is more than one way to skin this cat, timer or assembler delay loop.
I also agree that, when long enough, delay by timer is preferrable.
HOWEVER I must insist that a delay loop in C is "delay some unknown time"
The only C delay loop I would consider (although ridiculous) acceptable would be to figure out how many cycles the most efficient compiler would use and apply that where a delay is only specified as "not less than" and longer delay than minimum is no problem.

a footnote on asembler delays
that should ALWAYS have the following
$IF (clock == xxx)
$else
change the code here
$endif

Erik