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UWA week 13 (1st semester, week 5) ↓

Lab 2 Q5 Different Solution (all 4)

3:05pm Wed 27th Mar, Christopher M.

"Henry Hewgill" <23*1*7*8@s*u*e*t*u*a*e*u*a*> wrote:

> Only thing I wasn't doing was setting the timer to NULLTIMER when it timed out because it immediately sends the data frame again (which restarts the timer). I assumed that setting it to NULLTIMER in-between wouldn't make a difference so I omitted it.

You are correct; it's the sort of thing I often do in my coding 'just in case', so it's not forgotten. It's termed defensive programming. Other examples include adding {...} around code blocks, even if they're only a single line, and the pairing free(pointer); pointer = NULL;