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21 years ago

MicroC/OS-II hangs after printf in main

I have a simple system made with Q4.2sp1, Nios II v1.1 running MicroC/ OS-II. Running entirely on-chip from rom code and on-chip ram. Uart is rs232 servicing all three stdio's. Periodic ti...
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21 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion.

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Labrosse (author of uC/OS-II) suggests that one shouldn&#39;t start tasks from within main, but rather from within a task. This would also fix your problem. The reason Labrosse suggests it, is because the statistics task won&#39;t work properly if the tasks are started before OSStart.[/b]

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If thats the recommended way of building a system, and who should know better than the author, the sample applications created by the NIOS II IDE environment ought to be updated to reflect this detail.