TMS570LC4357: Program hangs in printf() function

I have a Hercules Safety Development Kit that is running on FreeRTOS v9. I am using Code Composer Studio v11 and HALCoGen v4.
My program hangs in printf(). My SCI is working properly. I included the stdio.h library. The code builds without any issue. As I am new to this platform, I am surely missing something.

A snippet of a test code is given below

#include "FreeRTOS.h"
#include "os_task.h"
#include "HL_sci.h"
#include "HL_het.h"
#include "HL_gio.h"
#include "stdio.h"
#include "HL_sys_common.h"

#define UART sciREG1
#define LENGTH 18

xTaskHandle xTas1kHandle, xTask2Handle;
uint8 TEXT[LENGTH] = {'B', 'u', 't', 't', 'o', 'n', ' ', 'i', 's', ' ', 'p', 'r', 'e', 's', 's', 'e', 'd', ' '};

void consolePrint(sciBASE_t *sci, uint8 *text, uint32 length){
    while(length--){
        while((sci->FLR & 0x4) == 4);
        sciSendByte(sci, *text++);
    }

}

void vTask1(void *pvParameters){
    for(;;){
        gioSetBit(hetPORT1, 0, (gioGetBit(hetPORT1, 0)^1));
        printf("Hello World\n\r"); //code hangs here
        vTaskDelay(100);
    }
}

void vTask2(void *pvParameters){
    for(;;){
        if((gioGetBit(gioPORTA, 7) == 0)){
        consolePrint(UART, &TEXT[0], LENGTH);
        vTaskDelay(100);
        }
    }
}

int main(void)
{
    sciInit();
    gioSetDirection(hetPORT1, 0xFFFFFFFF);
    gioSetDirection(gioPORTA, 0x00000000);

    if (xTaskCreate(vTask2, "Task 2", configMINIMAL_STACK_SIZE, NULL, 1, &xTask2Handle) != pdTRUE){
        while(1);
    }

    if (xTaskCreate(vTask1, "Task 1", configMINIMAL_STACK_SIZE, NULL, 1, &xTas1kHandle) != pdTRUE){
        consolePrint(UART, &TEXT[0], LENGTH);
    }

    vTaskStartScheduler();
    while(1);

    return 0;
}

Can anyone please help me with this issue? Any suggestion is appreciated.

Thank you.

Regards
UA