[Tinyos-devel] improving FTSP interface

Omprakash Gnawali gnawali at usc.edu
Wed Aug 6 22:32:28 PDT 2008


On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Miklos Maroti <mmaroti at math.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
>> It would be nice for FTSP to provide a rollover bit so that the
>> applications know that the time has wrapped around since the last the
>> time was read.
>
> Why would you want that? In a 32-bit global time you can regard the
> highest bit as a rollover indicator, whenever that value has changed
> from 1 to 0 then you have  a rollover.

That bit might change for reasons other than a rollover.

- om_p


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