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1. Use of Multi-Tasking feature

• Posted by cp Jul 11, 2011
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I have a program that will have two real-time tasks and one shared task. I need some clarification on how the procedures linked to the tasks need to be coded. The examples and docs indicate that for real-time tasks, the procedure needs a controlling loop (for or while) to make it run "forever" or x times.

procedure task_life() 
-- independent task: subtract life support energy  
    while TRUE do 
        if shuttle then 
            p_energy(-3) 
        else 
            p_energy(-13) 
        end if 
        task_yield() 
    end while 
end procedure 

Is this required? Does this coding technique also apply to procedures that will be time shared. ie. If I have:

task_schedule(t1, 10) 

Do I then code the procedure as:

procedure p_t1() 
integer i 
sequence sTemp 
for x = 1 to 10 do 
--some stuff 
end for 
task_yield() 
end procedure 

Thanks in advance