Re: [ECOS] mutexes

[Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>]

On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 03:02, Ronald Tubben wrote:
> Hi,
> Im an eCos newbie.
> Im am developing for an V850 platform but now using the linux synthetic 
> target.
> I've got a problem with mutexes but I can't find the origin of my problem.
> My prog looks like this:
> Ive got a class which contains a cyg_uint8 MyFirstVar and a cyg_mutex_t 
> MyFirstMutexVar.
> One instance of that class is used in two other classes which reads and 
> writes MyFirstVar. This is done by a read function and a write function. 
> Theirefore I introduced the MyFirstMutexVar to prevent the two classes 
> from reading and or writing the MyFirstVar at the same time.
> The problem is that I needed to declare a dummy mutexvariable to let the 
> program run.
> It goes wrong when the mutex is locked and have to be unlocked. When I 
> introduce the dummy mutex variable is works fine. When I made more 
> functions inside the variable class where I use cyg_mutex_lock an unlock 
> I have to declare more dummies!
> 
> I can make a code sample if you like but I don't now its gonna help.
> Perhaps someone can tell me it is my fault,  an eCos feature or 
> something else (synthetic target?).

Yes, please send the code.  Trying to figure out what's wrong from a
textual description is fraught with problems.

-- 
Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates


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