HELLO

Could anyone tell me what these code below are suppose to mean and what they do plz

my programming skills are rather poor


while (nI2CStatus[S1] == STAT_COMM_PENDING)

if (nI2CStatus[S1] == NO_ERR)


thanks

When you are send or getting data to or from an i2c device, it takes time for the data to come across. You have to wait untill the comuninication is done before reading the information into your return buffer.

" while (nI2CStatus[S1] == STAT_COMM_PENDING) " waits until that communication is done.



"if (nI2CStatus[S1] == NO_ERR)"
will only execute the the next pice of code if there is no error on the i2c bus.

Instead of

you should be using

The "while" in the first clause applies to the next statement. The second version adds an empty statement (or block). An aternative for the "{}" is to use a ";" as empty statement as in

Leaving out the ":" or "{}" can be a difficult bug to detect!

If you are writing a multi-tasking program (i.e. doing two tasks at once), then you want to use the following which puts in a short delay and prevents the code from sucking up to much CPU time