C++ exception in ISR

[Joel Sherrill]

On 10/25/2011 12:36 PM, Kirspel, Kevin wrote:
>
> I came across a little issue that I thought was interesting.  I have a 
> RTEMS timer that fires and pushes a value on a c++ vector.  After a 
> number of pushes, a c++ exception is generated (I assume an exception 
> is generated because GCC tries to lock one of its mutexes using 
> gxx_wrappers.c).  The exception never gets processed because GCC is 
> trying to lock a mutex within an ISR.  Of course RTEMS doesn’t like 
> this and a fatal error is generated.  Should RTEMS be able to handle a 
> C++ exception within an ISR?
>
The Timer Server was added specifically for this case.   If the run-time
does things which are not legal from an ISR, then you can't use
it for ISR based timers.  Both Ada and C++ use locks which could
(1) cause you to block and (2) may have priority inheritance or ceiling.


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