On 11 Nov 2009, at 00:55, epergola wrote:
Is there a way (or a 3rd party component or a library) to catch an
endless
loop after x seconds
in applications running on arm Wince?
It is not possible to know whether a loop is endless or not (at least
not in the general case, see the "halting problem"). If you simply
want to know whether your application has run its main loop within the
last x seconds, you can use a global variable and an extra thread:
* set the variable to 1 in the thread and sleep x seconds (note that
you have to do this with interlockedexchange, otherwise you can get
memory synchronisation issues)
* set it to 0 whenever you execute the main application loop (idem)
* if it's still 1 when the thread wakes up then the main application
loop has not run for x seconds
If you have multiple threads in your program, you will need multiple
global variables.
Jonas
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