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Subject: Re: Watchdog-Timer Assignment
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Alex <henningssonalex@gmail.com> writes:

> I did it that way as a beginning, but I can't use the "delay"-command
> because it is relative delay. I need to use "delay until" because the
> delay-command have something called "delay drift".

Well, the program doesn't start out on a whole wall-clock second, so I
don't see why it need sync to the wall clock only if a procedure misses
its deadline! You may say "but it's a requirement"; but it's the sort of
requirement that needs to be properly justified, not handed down on
tablets of stone.

Would be just as reasonable to run in whole seconds from program
start-up (I've moved over to a Ravenscar mindset, at least as far as
time stuff is concerned, so used to not having relative delay
statements).