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SEM_ipostBinary

I found a description of SEM_ipost. Is there such a thing as SEM_ipostBinary?

  • No, there isn't.  In fact, I recommend that you do not even use SEM_ipost.  Although the code is still present in BIOS 5.x we have removed SEM_ipost from the documentation because customers tended to make mistakes with it too often.  All it did was eliminate an "if" statement which saved you a couple cycles, so the benefit was small.  On the flip side if you misused the API by calling it from a task then the actual post would be delayed until the next system call occurred.  So as you can see there is little upside but potentially large downside to this API so we discourage its use.