[En-Nut-Discussion] Newbie - NUTos questions.

[James Flanagan]

Harald Kipp wrote:

> Hi Jim,
>
> At 08:47 29.09.2005 -0400, you wrote:
>
>> The question(s):
>> 1)  MUST I use the NutOS in order to use the Ethernet Libraries?
>
>
> The kernel provides four very basic functions:
> 1. Dynamic Memory
> 2. Events
> 3. Timers
> 4. Threads
>
> 3 and 4 use 2 and all of them use 1. The Ethernet driver
> uses a receiver thread and timers.
>
>> 2)  Since our design will have about 5 different communication ports 
>> (several RS232, ethernet, CAN, etc)
>>      I would prefer to not use the Nut provided printf function and 
>> continue to use the imagecraft provided printf function.
>>      Is this OK?
>
>
> Possibly a bit tricky, but it should work. Do not link
> with libnutcrt and remove
>
> #define printf      printf_M
> #define puts        puts_M
> #define sprintf     sprintf_M
> #define vprintf     vprintf_M
> #define scanf       scanf_M
> #define gets        gets_M
>
> from compiler.h or use
>
> #undef printf
> #undef puts
> #undef sprintf
> #undef vprintf
> #undef scanf
> #undef gets
>
> in your application code. But be aware that the ImageCraft
> lib doesn't provide fprintf.
>
> You can always check the .mp file to see which library
> parts were linked.
>
> Harald
>
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Thanks for the input...We'll see how things go.
Take care.
-jim

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James (Jim) Flanagan
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