I am using Free RTOS v7.02 and am relatively new to it. I am considering using a counting semaphore as a way of counting the number of interrupts that occur in a fixed period of time. However there is a chance that I cannot "take" all of the accumulated semaphore counts before a separate part of the program takes over. Is there a way to clear the accumulated counts? Deleting the semaphore would not work because a task will be blocked on it. I know that the queue management api has a "QueueReset" function but I could not find anything similar in the semaphore/mutex api.

Thanks.

You can pass your semaphore handle into the queue reset function. Just cast the xSemaphoreHandle to an xQueueHandle if the compiler generates a warning about the type mismatch.

However, xQueueReset() was only introduced in V7.1.1, and even then it will not let you reset a queue/semaphore when tasks are blocked on it. V7.2.0 will allow queues that have tasks blocked on them to be reset.

Regards.

Thanks for the feedback. What you say makes sense. Unfortunately I cannot change RTOS versions at this point.