Issue with `xTimerIsTimerActive()`

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gpathak wrote on Thursday, April 06, 2017:

Hi,
I am using FreeRTOS verison 8.1.2 and I am facing issue with xTimerIsTimerActive() function. This function always returns pdTRUE even if the timer is not created.
What could be the issue?

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heinbali01 wrote on Thursday, April 06, 2017:

I’m not sure why you would call xTimerIsTimerActive() without creating a valid timer.

Why don’t you initialise your timers and semaphores with NULL, and check for NULL yourself before calling API’s that are supposed to work with them?