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21 years ago

Semaphore support

Hi, I'm currently trying to initialize a semaphore by making a call to sem_init(), but instead of returning a non-zero value and printing a error condition, Nios II reboots. struct sem_...
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21 years ago

I'm not sure if this is the problem, but you may need to turn on IPC support in the kernel in order for semaphore support to work.

Take a look at:

.../altera/kits/nios2/examples/software/linux/apps/samples/thread

for an example of semaphores...