Mailbox_post() from main(), SYS/BIOS 6

Niklas Persson

I wonder a bit about the Mailbox_post() method. From the documentation, it says that it's not callable from main. Is that really true?

I would have assumed that with a timeout of zero, it would be safe from main()

By the way, I've tried it from main(), and it seems to work fine.

Niklas

over 14 years ago

0 ToddMullanix over 14 years ago

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Hi Niklas,

It looks like the documentation is incorrect. As long as you specify a timeout of zero, you can call Mailbox_post() (and even Mailbox_pend()) from main(). I'll open a bug report and have the docs addressed in the next SYS/BIOS release. It looks like Semaphore_pend()'s documentation needs to be looked at also.

Thanks for catching and bringing this up.

Todd

0 ToddMullanix over 14 years ago in reply to ToddMullanix

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FYI: The bug number is SDOCM00081911

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Mailbox_post() from main(), SYS/BIOS 6