Lars Povlsen wrote: > Here's a small fix to the cpuload package (and idle thread). > > In short, a missing 'volatile' attribute to the loop counter causes > newer (arm-eabi GCC 4.2.3/eCosentric toolchain) to produce wrong > results. > > This patch adds a volatile modifier to idle_thread_loops[], and updates > the reference to it from the cpuload package. (which was also using a > non-array declaration).
This all seems reasonable. Presumably GCC 4 is holding the idle loop count in a register. Any other comments before I check this in? John Dallaway eCos maintainer
