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Is there a Serial.available() function for xmos uart?

Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 2:00 am
by mifay
I've looked around a little in xmos uart modules and I couldn't find an equivalent to Arduino's Serial.available() function. Does someone know an equivalent function?

Re: Is there a Serial.available() function for xmos uart?

Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 6:29 am
by rp181
When you use the UART component, you have to pass a reference to a state variable:

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uart_rx_client_state rxState;
This gives you how many bytes has been received:

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rxState.received_bytes
However, i don't believe that this resets to zero after you read the bytes from the buffer.

I just briefly looked into the code, but you may also want to look in the source files (especially uart_rx_impl) about how the struct buffer_state is used.