software delays (was: LINT won't do your debugging for you)

[Tim McDaniel]

In article <1640 at frog.UUCP> john at frog.UUCP (John Woods) writes:
> The faster IOP version uses
>	#define STALL waste++
...
>Of course, some day the compiler is likely to notice that all of those
>increments can be bundled up into a "waste += 32" at the end of the function
>and then we'll be stuck... :-)

        /* #define volatile             /* use if non-pANS C compiler */
        volatile int waste = 0;
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