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On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 09:45:27AM +0100, Robert Brusa wrote: > Hi > the function main has a somewhat special role, but little can be found > about it in eCOSs documentation. I found the statement, that some > libraries are initialized when main is called. Further: I have written > small test-apps for my modules and normally these apps do not include a > main, but only one (or several) threads. Then I built an app that > included a main only, but no threads. Both approaches work, but can I do > everything that is allowed in threads also in main? Or in other words: > > 1) Is main just a thread or is it kind of the idle task of eCOS? main is a full eCos thread. It is not however a full POSIX thread, as far as i remember. > 2) Where are its stack-resource assigned and how much. CYGNUM_LIBC_MAIN_DEFAULT_STACK_SIZE CYGNUM_LIBC_MAIN_THREAD_PRIORITY Andrew -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss
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