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XY2k



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XY2k 14 Dec 2006, 15:15
Hi Community,
i want like coding a sleep-delay function (5sec.) in asm but without any api.
Have somebody an idea ?

regards,
XY2k
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coconut



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coconut 14 Dec 2006, 16:12
i remember my old vb6 days, i did something like
Code:
sub pause(seconds as integer)

x = timer()
do:doevents
loop until timer-x=seconds

end sub
    


im not sure if you can translate that to fasm, without using an api to get current time
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Plue



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Plue 14 Dec 2006, 16:45
Basically you can't if you don't have access to the timer interrupt or the api.
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Tomasz Grysztar



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Tomasz Grysztar 14 Dec 2006, 17:28
Well, if you know what clock your processor has, you may try the RDTSC.
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Plue



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Plue 14 Dec 2006, 20:46
The point with Sleep() is that your process doesn't use any CPU, but it will use CPU time if you constantly check the time ... unless you wait with Sleep() in between everytime you check Wink

Waiting for five seconds <> looping for five seconds.
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Tomasz Grysztar



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Tomasz Grysztar 14 Dec 2006, 22:34
This of course cannot be achieved without task-switching (well, there is also HLT, but it's a privileged instruction), what is out of reach of your process itself, even if you had access to timer interrupt.

The existence of the solution depends on what the need really is (the question wasn't much detailed).
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kohlrak



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kohlrak 14 Dec 2006, 23:38
I agree, Sleep is efficient as it is and trying to code something else is not going to work well... you might be able to recode the same thing, but since you're basing it on a system with an inturnal clock (GetTickCount) it'll probably be best to use it. The system calls are pretty safe to use, and we have them there and they're free so we my as well use them unless we're coding our own OS kernel.
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XY2k



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XY2k 18 Dec 2006, 14:45
Sorry guys and thx for answers Smile,
i don´t mean without any API, i mean without sleep api!

I want like try to recode the sleep function, so i can do it with GetTickCount but i dont have an idea how i can realize it Sad

I´m happy when somebody can give me a peace of code Smile

regards,
XY2k
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kohlrak 18 Dec 2006, 21:21
Well, if some one gives you the code how can you recode it yourself?
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f0dder 18 Dec 2006, 23:14
Doing it with GetTickCount will be less accurate, and will keep you in a CPU-using polling loop, whereas Sleep() suspends your thread (meaning zero CPU usage).
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Tomasz Grysztar



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Tomasz Grysztar 18 Dec 2006, 23:46
Well, if you want just anything other than Sleep, you may try WaitForSingleObject (perhaps even combined with CreateWaitableTimer).
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