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#ifndef PCPUTIMER_H
#define PCPUTIMER_H



#include "PortPrefix.h"
#include "ptypes.h"

/**
 * @addtogroup PCPUTimerModule PCPUTimer API functions
 *
 * @{
 */

/** Typedef */
typedef struct PCPUTimer_t PCPUTimer;

/**
 * Creates a new timer object.
 *
 * @param timer PCPUTimer handle
 * @return ESR_INVALID_ARGUMENT if timer is value it points to is null
 */
PORTABLE_API ESR_ReturnCode PCPUTimerCreate(PCPUTimer **timer);


/**
 * Destroys timer object.
 *
 * @param timer PCPUTimer handle
 * @return ESR_INVALID_ARGUMENT if timer is null
 */
PORTABLE_API ESR_ReturnCode PCPUTimerDestroy(PCPUTimer *timer);

/**
 * Starts the timer. This sets the reference time from which all new elapsed
 * time are computed.  This does not reset the elapsed time to 0.  This is
 * useful to pause the timer.
 *
 * @return ESR_INVALID_ARGUMENT if timer is null; ESR_FATAL_ERROR if OS timer is available
 */
PORTABLE_API ESR_ReturnCode PCPUTimerStart(PCPUTimer *timer);

/**
 * Stops the timer.
 *
 * @return ESR_INVALID_ARGUMENT if timer is null; ESR_FATAL_ERROR if OS timer is available
 */
PORTABLE_API ESR_ReturnCode PCPUTimerStop(PCPUTimer *timer);

/**
 * Returns the timer elapsed time.  If the Timer is in the stopped state,
 * successive calls to getElapsed() will always return the same value.  If the
 * Timer is in the started state, successive calls will return the elapsed
 * time since the last time PCPUTimerStart() was called.
 *
 * @return ESR_INVALID_ARGUMENT if timer or elapsed to is null; ESR_FATAL_ERROR if OS timer is available
 */
PORTABLE_API ESR_ReturnCode PCPUTimerGetElapsed(PCPUTimer *timer,
    asr_uint32_t* elapsed);

/**
 * Resets the elapsed time to 0 and resets the reference time of the Timer.
 * This effectively reset the timer in the same state it was right after
 * creation.
 *
 * @return ESR_INVALID_ARGUMENT if timer is null
 */
PORTABLE_API ESR_ReturnCode PCPUTimerReset(PCPUTimer *timer);

/**
 * @}
 */


#endif