I am using Freertos on a Intel Galileo Gen 2 board and I am having problems to launch a task. I have a reduced version of the demo main.c just eliminating the references to the demos. I have correctly compiled an run different functions but when I try to launch a Task, as described in the documentation I see no sign of it actually running. This is the code I am testing:

~~~ void frogaTask (void *pvParameters ){ ( void ) pvParameters; g_printf("GET IN");

 for ( ;; ){
	 g_printf("LOOP");
 }
 vTaskDelete( NULL );

}

int main( void ) { /* Optionally wait for a debugger to connect. */ prvLoopToWaitForDebugConnection();

/* Init the UART, GPIO, etc. */
prvSetupHardware();
g_printf("1");
BaseType_t ret = xTaskCreate( frogaTask, "Froga" , configMINIMAL_STACK_SIZE , NULL, tskIDLE_PRIORITY + 1, NULL );
g_printf("2");
/* Start the tasks and timer running. */
vTaskStartScheduler();
g_printf("3");
return 0;

}

~~~ When I run it i see nothing on the teminal but the 1 and 2 numbers. This means that Task is actually created (I have checked that ret has a 1 value, what I understand is a correct output) and Scheduler runs and never returns control, what I think is correct, but I don't see the "GET IN" and "LOOP" messages.

What I am missing? How can I get some visibility of what is going on?

Thanks

If you stop the debugger, what code is executing? Could you be in an assert() (ensure configASSERT() is defined), or in a stack overflow hook (ensure stack overflow checking is set to 2).

What happens if you toggle an LED instead of calling g_printf() in the task? Use a delay so you can see the LED toggling, something like:

~~~ for( ;; ) { ToggleLED(); /* whatever the function is really called). vTaskDelay( pdMSTOTICKS( 500 ); } ~~~