I am having a good time implementing various experiements in FreeRTOS on a Silabs C8051F120. I had no difficulty settinig up the Silabs IDE to work with the SDCC compiler. I love having a good hardware debugger! If anyone is having trouble with that setup, I might be able to help you out.

I have several tasks which must perform once-only actions prior to entering the for-ever loop. Can I assume that the FreeRTOS web page which describes task structure as:

void vATaskFunction( void *pvParameters )
{
for( ;; )
{
-- Task application code here. --
}
}

could correctly be modified to:

void vATaskFunction( void *pvParameters )
{
-- Once-only code here. --
for( ;; )
{
-- Task application code here. --
}
}

I can tell you that this works correctly in all of the cases I have tried so far. I would like to know if if is Kosher before implementing my final application.

Thanks.
- Bill Den Beste

There is no problem with your suggestion for placing code prior to the for(;;) loop when implementing a task - note however it would not be ok to do this when implementing a co-routine.

Regards.