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Re: Synthetic Target newbie question
- From: Bart Veer <bartv at ecoscentric dot com>
- To: richard at forrestit dot com
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 11:41:26 +0100 (BST)
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Synthetic Target newbie question
- References: <opsqlr65m2zf95a8@localhost.localdomain>
>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Forrest <richard@forrestit.com> writes:
Richard> I am new to eCos (and embedded programming) and have been
Richard> trying to set up a synthetic target.
Richard> I have installed the prebuilt eCos, built the synth_host
Richard> tools and built a default synthetic target on a
Richard> linux-2.6.10 FC2 OS.
Richard> When I run a simple example program a SIGSEGV is
Richard> generated. According to the debugger this is occuring in
Richard> synth_alarm_sighandler.
Richard> I presume I have failed to set up my synthetic target
Richard> correctly. Can someone tell me what I might be doing
Richard> wrong?
You are not doing anything wrong. The Fedora folks have subtly broken
something in the kernel signal handling. The eCos anoncvs tree has a
workaround, so you'll need to switch to that.
http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss/2005-05/msg00042.html for
more details.
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