CYGPKG_CPULOAD fixes
John Dallaway
john@dallaway.org.uk
Tue Apr 20 10:15:00 GMT 2010
Lars Povlsen wrote:
> Here's a small fix to the cpuload package (and idle thread).
>
> In short, a missing 'volatile' attribute to the loop counter causes
> newer (arm-eabi GCC 4.2.3/eCosentric toolchain) to produce wrong
> results.
>
> This patch adds a volatile modifier to idle_thread_loops[], and updates
> the reference to it from the cpuload package. (which was also using a
> non-array declaration).
This all seems reasonable. Presumably GCC 4 is holding the idle loop
count in a register. Any other comments before I check this in?
John Dallaway
eCos maintainer
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