pmendham wrote on Tuesday, August 30, 2016:
Dear all,
We make heavy use of one-shot software timers on a number of platforms, including FreeRTOS. When porting to FreeRTOS I made the foolish assumption (without checking the source code) that one-shot timers with a zero period would be valid, but that they would expire immediately. I based this on preconceptions from other platforms, but this is definitely not true on FreeRTOS.
I realise that I should have checked the source, and that this assumption was perhaps a bit daft (especially given that FreeRTOS timers can be periodic and a zero period makes no sense in that case) but I was wondering if there was part of the documentation which explicitly states that a timer with a zero period (either through the create or change functions) was invalid. I may have missed such a statement, in which case I would appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction for my future reference. If I haven’t missed it, would it be worth consider the addition of an explicit statement about the (in)validity of zero periods just to guard against anyone as foolish as me?
Thanks,
Peter