/* This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ #pragma once /* a method to make semaphores less error prone. The WITH_SEMAPHORE() macro will block forever for a semaphore, and will automatically release the semaphore when it goes out of scope Note that we have two types of semaphores. A normal semaphore can only be taken once. A recursive semaphore allows for the thread holding the semaphore to take it again. It must be released the same number of times it is taken. The WITH_SEMAPHORE() macro can be used with either type of semaphore */ #include namespace AP_HAL { class Semaphore; } class WithSemaphore { public: WithSemaphore(AP_HAL::Semaphore *mtx) : WithSemaphore(*mtx) { } WithSemaphore(AP_HAL::Semaphore &mtx) : _mtx(mtx) { _mtx.take_blocking(); } ~WithSemaphore() { _mtx.give(); } private: AP_HAL::Semaphore &_mtx; }; // From: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19666142/why-is-a-level-of-indirection-needed-for-this-concatenation-macro #define WITH_SEMAPHORE( sem ) JOIN( sem, __COUNTER__ ) #define JOIN( symbol1, symbol2 ) _DO_JOIN( symbol1, symbol2 ) #define _DO_JOIN( symbol1, symbol2 ) WithSemaphore _getsem ## symbol2(symbol1)