Thank you for the reply, indeed, making my variable a global variable does make the code behave as I intended!

Coming from a single-threaded procedural background, the idea that my main function goes out of scope while any part of my code is still executing had never occurred to me!

I'm working on a project involving timing button presses of a button attached to GPIO pin 23 of an ESP32 board. In my project, I need to be able to pass some state to my interrupt handler, as well as to my debounce timers. According to the FreeRTOS documentation: https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS...