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0 pointsBorg31mo ago0 comments

Like fucking what? If you do any TS.. you just use unsigned whatever fastest type you have on targeting platform, and you do NOT care. 16bit? wrapping at 1 min? Thats eternity even on 2MHz 6502... You just count and substract to get difference. Usually you are <1000ms range.. so wrapping is not a problem..

If you target about 32bit and 16bit, you either think about and using long (on 16 bit is more costly) or you just count seconds.. Or ticks.. or whatever you need.

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direwolf201mo ago

cool, it's an app that lets me set a 2 minute timer and counts in milliseconds, oh what's that, it doesn't work right on Arduino

Borg3OP1mo ago

Then use long.. Does Arduino CPU cannot do 16bit add/sub with carry? wtf?

direwolf201mo ago

I'm not writing the app. The app was written according to your preferred design and I'm compiling it for Arduino. You say to just use int because it always has enough bits, then you say to sometimes use long because int might not have enough bits.

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0 pointsBorg31mo ago0 comments

If you target about 32bit and 16bit, you either think about and using long (on 16 bit is more costly) or you just count seconds.. Or ticks.. or whatever you need.

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direwolf201mo ago

cool, it's an app that lets me set a 2 minute timer and counts in milliseconds, oh what's that, it doesn't work right on Arduino

Borg3OP1mo ago

Then use long.. Does Arduino CPU cannot do 16bit add/sub with carry? wtf?

direwolf201mo ago

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