CC26xx: Why do some tasks not show in ti-rtos plugin for IAR?

CM2015

I have added a couple tasks (e.g. the NPI uart task) to the blecentral project but I have an issue in IAR where the added tasks are not shown in the task plugin. It only shows the idle/gap/central role/and ICall task. Is there any reason for why they are not showing up? Note that the tasks are indeed executing as expected, they just dont show up in the task plugin..

over 10 years ago

0 Tim C over 10 years ago

TI__Mastermind 34660 points

That is pretty strange and I've never seen that before. Does the NPI uart task show in a project that already uses it such as HostTestApp?

0 CM2015 over 10 years ago in reply to Tim C

Expert 1060 points

After some more searching in the RTOS forum I found the answer, I had the task struct set as static... it needs to be global for the debugger to see it!

0 svendbt over 10 years ago in reply to CM2015

TI__Mastermind 29650 points

Hi,

Yes for some reason the TI RTOS plugin is not able to find static structs. The same applies to Hwi's / Swi's, Semaphores etc.

Since you typically don't want to have all these in the global namespace you can add in a compile-time macro while deveoping such as:

#ifdef ROV
  #define ROV_STATIC
#else
  #define ROV_STATIC static
#endif 

ROV_STATIC Task_Struct someTask;

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CC26xx: Why do some tasks not show in ti-rtos plugin for IAR?