RTEMS C User's Guide
The fatal error manager is called upon detection of an irrecoverable error condition by either RTEMS or the application software. Fatal errors can be detected from three sources:
RTEMS automatically invokes the fatal error manager upon detection of an error it considers to be fatal. Similarly, the user should invoke the fatal error manager upon detection of a fatal error.
Each status or dynamic user extension set may include a fatal error handler. The fatal error handler in the static extension set can be used to provide access to debuggers and monitors which may be present on the target hardware. If any user-supplied fatal error handlers are installed, the fatal error manager will invoke them. If no user handlers are configured or if all the user handler return control to the fatal error manager, then the RTEMS default fatal error handler is invoked. If the default fatal error handler is invoked, then the system state is marked as failed.
Although the precise behavior of the default fatal error handler is processor specific, in general, it will disable all maskable interrupts, place the error code in a known processor dependent place (generally either on the stack or in a register), and halt the processor. The precise actions of the RTEMS fatal error are discussed in the Default Fatal Error Processing chapter of the Applications Supplement document for a specific target processor.
RTEMS C User's Guide
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