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Re: Carbon sleep?

Why not allocate finalCount on the stack (no point in making work for
yourself). Also, this will leak 4 bytes every time it is called.

Simpler is:

UInt32 finalCount;
Delay((5*60),&finalCount);

That's it!

Cheers,

Steve.

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> From: bholbert <email@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:30:02 -0600
> To: email@hidden
> Subject: Re: Carbon sleep?
>
> Ok since this has generated alot of mail here's the total code ;)
>
> #include <CoreServices/CoreServices.h>
>
> UInt32 *finalCount;
>
> finalCount = (UInt32*)malloc(sizeof(UInt32));
>
> Delay((5*60),finalCount); //This is a 5 second delay I think since the
> doc said a tick is 1/60 of a second...anyway it seems to work for me.
>
> I forgot that part and the program did crash, then I put it in and all
> went well.
> thanks
> Brian
>
>
> On Thursday, February 28, 2002, at 06:40 AM, Jesper Papmehl wrote:
>
>> 2002-02-28 04.00, bholbert <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> just for others that might be interested
>>>
>>> #include <CoreServices/CoreServices.h>
>>>
>>> UInt32 *finalCount;
>>>
>>> Delay((5*60),finalCount); //This is a 5 second delay I think since the
>>> doc said a tick is 1/60 os a second...anyway it seems to work for me.
>>
>> Hmm... Maybe I'm wrong, but couldn't that crash?
>> Delay returns the final tickcount in the finalCount parameter. In the
>> code
>> above, finalCount points to some random memory area, so Delay will write
>> four bytes into some random place in memory.
>> I think
>> UInt32 finalCount;
>> Delay((5*60),&finalCount);
>> would be much safer.
>>
>> Right?
>>
>>
>> /Jesper
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