Hi,
I am working on integrating C code generated from a modeling tool with FreeRTOS. I am using FreeRTOS V7.1 Windows Simulator and mingw32-gcc V3.4.5.
To get started I only have 2 tasks sending ping and pong back and forth and that works fine. With the same 2 tasks, if the exchange is stopped, both tasks should hang quietly on their respective queues for a new message to come in. But in that case I get a segmentation fault in vTaskSwitchContext at C:/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOSV7.1.0/Source/tasks.c : 1625. This line calls the listGET_OWNER_OF_NEXT_ENTRY macro.
I have spent hours trying to figure out what was going on without any success. I would appreciate any suggestion to fix that problem.
Thanks in advance,
Emmanuel

I have to admit not using the Eclipse version of the simulator for some time. It has not changed much since it was originally created, whereas I use the Visual Studio version often for development, and have never experienced anything like that.

Can you cut your task code down to the bare minimum necessary to reproduce the problem, then post the code here? Use the "codify" button above to ensure the formatting is maintained.

Regards.

I am trying to cut the code down to something very simple but since it is generated code it will take me some time. Please also note I am not using Eclipse but a standard makefile generated by the modeling tool. I'll get back to you when I have something usable.

Hi,

It took me some time to figure out what was happening. It is actually a debugging problem. Our tool automatically asks the debugger a number of information about what is happening on the target. One of the request tries to figure out which thread is currently active. To do so with MingW, the command "info threads" is executed. But after this command a segmentation fault occurs. I have removed this command from the integration so I do not have the problem any more but I thought that might be useful to someone else. Please find below what I get when I debug manually:

G:\Users\gaudin\dev\Test\FreeRTOS\ccg>gdb tabletennis.out
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(gdb) break RTDS_StartTimer
Breakpoint 1 at 0x4024ec: file h:/workspaces/gaudin/rtds_rel/share/ccg/freertos/rtds_os.c, line 192.
(gdb) r
Starting program: G:\Users\gaudin\dev\Test\FreeRTOS\ccg/tabletennis.out
Error: dll starting at 0x76ce1000 not found.

Error: dll starting at 0x74f81000 not found.

Error: dll starting at 0x76ce1000 not found.

Error: dll starting at 0x76a91000 not found.

[Switching to thread 264.0x1ab0]

Breakpoint 1, RTDS_StartTimer (instanceId=0x731c88, timerNumber=5,
    timerUniqueId=1, delay=100, pTimerStateList=0x731c5c,
    RTDS_currentContext=0x731c40)
    at h:/workspaces/gaudin/rtds_rel/share/ccg/freertos/rtds_os.c:192
192       watchDogId = xTimerCreate(
(gdb) c
Continuing.

Breakpoint 1, RTDS_StartTimer (instanceId=0x731c88, timerNumber=5,
    timerUniqueId=1, delay=100, pTimerStateList=0x731c5c,
    RTDS_currentContext=0x731c40)
    at h:/workspaces/gaudin/rtds_rel/share/ccg/freertos/rtds_os.c:192
192       watchDogId = xTimerCreate(
(gdb) info threads
  6 thread 264.0x1560  prvIdleTask (pvParameters=0x0)
    at C:/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOSV7.1.0/Source/tasks.c:1879
  5 thread 264.0x1fe4  0x7736fb81 in ?? ()
  4 thread 264.0x1840  0x7736fb81 in ?? ()
* 3 thread 264.0x1ab0  RTDS_StartTimer (instanceId=0x731c88, timerNumber=5,
    timerUniqueId=1, delay=100, pTimerStateList=0x731c5c,
    RTDS_currentContext=0x731c40)
    at h:/workspaces/gaudin/rtds_rel/share/ccg/freertos/rtds_os.c:192
  2 thread 264.0x1a10  0x7736fd71 in ?? ()
  1 thread 264.0xb5c  0x7737013d in ?? ()
(gdb) c
Continuing.

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to thread 264.0xb5c]
0x004047b2 in vTaskSwitchContext ()
    at C:/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOSV7.1.0/Source/tasks.c:1625
1625                    listGET_OWNER_OF_NEXT_ENTRY( pxCurrentTCB, &( pxReadyTasksLists[ uxTopReadyPriority ] ) );
(gdb)