I am currently studying the pic18-port and I was wondering why tskMAX_TASK_NAME_LEN is defined in task.h instead of partable.h. I think it would be nice when this was changed. On 8-bit micro's as the pic18, every saved byte of ram is valuable.

Perhaps it's even possible to change the taskname (optionally, portable) from a string to a char, eliminating the need for the terminating \0.

A char for taskname gives plenty possibilities for tasknames (a-z, A-Z, 0-9) without using lots of ram.

Marcel

Hi Marcel,

Can you add this to the change request tracker on the main sourceforge page. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/freertos). It will be the first one but it would be good to start off the feature request list.

This is a small change that can be included in the next release.

There are a few RAM saving tips here:
http://www.freertos.org/FAQMem.html#RAMReduce

Regards.

It's me again. I see that the taskname is only used by the trace-facility. Perhaps an idea to only include the taskname when the trace-facility is included?

Change Request Tracker? COOL!

This would be the RFE-tab, right? RFE = Requenst For Enhancement???

RFE created.
If there are spelling-errors, that's because of the fight I had with my cat about who owns the keyboard... :-)

It has appeared in the correct section, but I am curious as to where you get "RFE" from. From here it says "Feature Requests". Does source forge take location into account and change terminology and/or language when it serves pages?

Just spotted the RFE - it shows both. The feature requests can be seen from the "Summary" page on source forge.