[ECOS] Redboot question [saved_context]

[Nick Garnett]

John Newlin <jnewlin@rawbw.com> writes:

> In main.c, there's a global: saved_context.
> 
> Is hal_thread_switch_context supposed to allocated the space for this?
> I'm sure I'm just missing something here.

The space to save the context is allocated on the stack, this location
is then used to contain a pointer to it and is passed to
HAL_THREAD_LOAD_CONTEXT() later, when the context is to be reloaded.


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