possible doc problem?

Joel Sherrill joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com
Fri Sep 26 11:16:45 UTC 2003


Chris Caudle wrote:

>While browsing through some of the new documentation, I ran across this:
>"7.2: Writing an Application
>>From an application author's perspective, RTEMS applications do not start at main(). They begin execution at one or more application initialization task or thread and main() is owned by the Board Support Package."
>
>Isn't that out of date now? The release notes from two years ago have this:
>"The 20011017 snapshot has a number of modifications including:
>  + main() is now in user space and a default configuration
>    is in librtemsall.a.  Together these mean that the
>    classic hello world program can be linked and should run
>    ignoring object format conversions needed to download."
>
>Did I misunderstand something, or should section 7.2 be patched?
>  
>
It's definitely broken.  Please file a PR with a patch if possible.  
Which manual is this?

>-- Chris Caudle
>  
>






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