GDSX (Extended General Device Support) Manual

Service Routines

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PUTEXTPOOL

semaphore input

is a pointer to the semaphore to be acquired.

time input

INT(32):value

specifies the maximum number of ticks (10 ms units) to wait to obtain the

semaphore. If this parameter is omitted, the task waits indefinitely.

Consideration

A task calling this procedure may be suspended.

PUTEXTPOOL

This procedure deallocates space obtained from any of the four extended memory

pools by a call to GETEXTPOOL.

For more information, see Memory Pools on page 2-24.

pool input

INT:value

indicates which pool to deallocate space for. The value of pool is one of the

following:

address input

INT(32):value

is the relative extended address of the area to be deallocated. This parameter is

passed by value.

INT:ref (Semaphore in global memory)

INT(32) .EXT:ref (Pointer to semaphore in extended memory)

CALL PUTEXTPOOL ( pool !

,address ); !

1 Shared extended pool

2 Private extended pool

10 Extended buffer pool

11 Extended message pool