[ECOS] [ecos]hanger in printf

[Andrew Lunn]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:58:05AM +0100, Robert Brusa wrote:
> Hi
> Following a recent update (Jan 09) of ecos from V2.0 to the "unstable"  
> version and migration to the new gnutools arm-eabi of codesourcery, I run 
> into a hanger of a printf statement:
>
> void IsInitMode(void)
> {
> 	static bool first = true;
> 	static unsigned long int t1, t0 = 0;	// time in units of 10 ms
> 	t1 = cyg_current_time();
> 	if ( ( t1 - t0 > 600 * SEC2TICS ) || first) { // msg repeats every minute
> 		first = false;
> 		printf("\nstatus is INIT - manual help required");

Not likely to be your problem, but i would put a trailing \n. printf is buffered, so it won't get
flushed until the buffer is full or \n output. I don't think diag_printf is buffered.

printf() needs a lot of stack space, more than diag_printf. Maybe your
stack is too small?

      Andrew

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