SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0 OR BSD-2-Clause
brief: |
  Creates a timer.
copyrights:
- Copyright (C) 2020 embedded brains GmbH (http://www.embedded-brains.de)
- Copyright (C) 1988, 2008 On-Line Applications Research Corporation (OAR)
definition:
  default:
    attributes: null
    body: null
    params:
    - ${../../type/if/name:/name} ${.:/params[0]/name}
    - ${../../type/if/id:/name} *${.:/params[1]/name}
    return: ${../../status/if/code:/name}
  variants: []
description: |
  This directive creates a timer.  The assigned object identifier is returned
  in ${.:/params[1]/name}.  This identifier is used to access the timer with
  other timer related directives.
enabled-by: true
index-entries:
- create a timer
interface-type: function
links:
- role: interface-placement
  uid: header
- role: interface-ingroup
  uid: group
name: rtems_timer_create
notes: |
  This directive may cause the calling task to be preempted due to an obtain
  and release of the object allocator mutex.

  For control and maintenance of the timer, RTEMS allocates a
  ${/glossary/tmcb:/term} from the local TMCB free pool and initializes it.

  In SMP configurations, the processor of the currently executing thread
  determines the processor used for the created timer.  During the life-time of
  the timer this processor is used to manage the timer internally.
params:
- description: is the name of the timer.
  dir: null
  name: name
- description: |
    is the pointer to an object identifier variable.  The identifier of the
    created timer object will be stored in this variable, in case of a
    successful operation.
  dir: out
  name: id
return:
  return: null
  return-values:
  - description: |
      The requested operation was successful.
    value: ${../../status/if/successful:/name}
  - description: |
      The timer name was invalid.
    value: ${../../status/if/invalid-name:/name}
  - description: |
      The ${.:/params[1]/name} parameter was ${/c/if/null:/name}.
    value: ${../../status/if/invalid-address:/name}
  - description: |
      There was no inactive object available to create a new timer.  The number
      of timers available to the application is configured through the
      ${/acfg/if/max-timers:/name} configuration option.
    value: ${../../status/if/too-many:/name}
type: interface