Re: [avr-libc-dev] Sleep mode and global interrut enable

[Joerg Wunsch]

As Dmitry K. wrote:

> > > Could we perhaps get some new macros
> > > into sleep.h?

> The C99 standart has entered new data types with exotic names like
> _Bool, _Complex.  The reason consist that the choice of simple names
> (bool, complex) would lead to necessity to correct thousands already
> written programs.

>    What about to rename new 'sleep()' into another?

Yes, I agree with this.  The reason why we didn't chose sleep() in the
first place was in particular, that a function named sleep() is
typically used to pause program execution for that number of seconds,
which is something completely different than our sleep instruction
does.

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