Re: about serial port communication and new operator
harshalshete@gmail.com wrote:
actually i am expecting a fixed characters output from the serial port
and it is
not going to change.
means i am expecting 522 bytes of data.
and ReadFile is a blocking call so in first call it will read 512 bytes
and in the next call it will
read 10 bytes and because of that the follwing condition will become
true.
if(i<512)
break;
and it will terminate the while(TRUE) loop
and then i can process that data
that is what i am thinking is it right or wrong?
please give me a good link/Document on serial communication.
It is unreliable to assume that you will receive a fixed number of bytes
from ReadFile. The timing of the bytes can affect how many you receive
from one call. Also, communication errors that result in loss of some
bytes can occur, and your code does not check for that. Also, if
settings are wrong or the cable is disconnected a blocking call willl
cause your entire program to lock up. It is best to use overlapped
reads with timeouts, and buffer whatever number of bytes you receive,
and reassemble and validate messages from multiple calls in your buffer.
This article and associated sample code do serial communication well:
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnfiles/html/msdn_serial.asp>
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