[fpc-pascal]dos approx delay fn that releases cpu

[Thomas Schatzl]

Hello,

> Anyone know anything better than the code below (from John Stockton's
site),
> comments from [fpc-devel] , which releases cpu that will work for win95
and

[fpc-devel] ??

> win 2000? this is results so far from fpc developers...
>
> I've noticed that although this seems to work mostly in fpc dos
> program under win2000 it sometimes crashes & creates an exception...Under

Excerpt from the Intel docs:

The HLT instruction is a privileged instruction. When the processor is
running in protected or virtual-8086 mode, the privilege level of a program
or procedure must be 0 to execute the HLT instruction.

-> Should always exit a normal FPC program by force on NT.  (It does here)

NT uses that instruction in the idle process to lower CPU power consumption.
W9x doesn't.


Regards,
    Thomas