Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Eric Norum <[email protected]> · Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:30:59 -0800

Caveat -- the RTEMS code also does a lazy allocation but only if a Receive method/function is invoked with a size smaller than the maximum message size used to create the queue.

On Jan 28, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Till Straumann wrote:
> 
> Yes. But that's a hack (the user must know some implementation details of message queues). IMHO the default implementation (RTEMS and
> probably vxWorks are OK) could be improved.
> 
>> 
>> We probably should add a routine to the API to allow the eventFreeList to be
>> pre-allocated, but you probably want to be able to run on existing versions of
>> Base.
> 
> I'd consider such a routine a bit 'hackish'. I'd vote for improving the implementation. Of course, that would not be retroactive and your
> recommendation above could be used as a work-around on older versions.
> 
> - Till
>> 
>> Eric — unless you stole the code from someone else you were the author of all
>> the *MessageQueue.* files, 'bzr log' does not lie...
>> 
>> - Andrew
> 

>From the indenting style I infer that Marty Kraimer wrote the code and had me commit it......
Does that count as stealing???   :-)

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Eric Norum
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System