rtems object name

[Thomas Doerfler]

Philip,

AFAIK multiple RTEMS objects can have the same name. The only 
drawback is, that you can no longer identify an object by its 
unique name :-)

wkr,
Thomas.


> i'm currently porting SDL (www.libsdl.org) which include a framework for
> creating SDL tasks, which look like this
> 
> int SDL_SYS_CreateThread(SDL_Thread *thread, void *args)
> {
> 	rtems_status_code   status;
> 	/*create the task*/
> 	status = rtems_task_create(rtems_build_name( 'S', 'D', 'L', 'T' ),
> 					1,
> 					RTEMS_MINIMUM_STACK_SIZE * 4,
> 					RTEMS_DEFAULT_MODES,
> 					RTEMS_NO_FLOATING_POINT | RTEMS_LOCAL,
> 					&thread->handle
> 					);
> 	if ( status ) {
> 		SDL_SetError("Couldn't initialize thread");
> 		return(-1);
> 	}
> 
> 	/*start the task*/
> 	status = rtems_task_start ( thread->handle, RunThread,(rtems_task_argument) args);
> 	if ( status != 0 ) {
> 		SDL_SetError("Not enough resources to create thread");
> 		return(-1);
> 	}
> 	return(0);
> }
> 
> ofcourse i dont know how many SDL_Thread will be created by the
> application using SDL...
> so, my question is,can differents object share a common name?
> 
> Philippe

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