Wouter van Ooijen wrote: > One step better, and one level up in the language picking order: I'd > like to specify that, and not have to worry about how many instructions > I spent doing those other things. And I want to be able to specify that > in loops too. Does anyone know of a HLL syntax (or even an > implementation) for this? With a rather high overhead (between too high and much too high for the typical applications we're talking about :), this is what a preemptive realtime OS provides. I don't know of any HLL that has support for timing at this level. Gerhard -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist