Re: How to read/write an 'address' from a memory location......

On 2007-10-23, aeroboro221@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <aeroboro221@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

By the way, there is no concept of semaphores between two
processors right?

Sure there is.

What I can think of is a flag shared between the two
processors by means of shared RAM or a messaging unit.

A flag + a couple atomic operations == semaphore.

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