Thread: OSCreateTask Help with a stack size question.

Hi I am recently new to programming, just a quick question on what exactly stack size is? Is that how many bits will be used if it is held in a queve? or is it the order it should be done? I am using Salvo for a Cube Sat kit. And dspic33 microcontroller. MPLAB is my programming/debugging software. I am using OSCreatTask(Task, Arg, stacksize). Another question is what does the argument mean? here is a sample code I am working off of. Thank you in advance for your time.

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// Create tasks.
OSCreateTask(task_led, TASK_LED_P, 3);
OSCreateTask(task_sd_append, TASK_SD_APPEND_P, 11);
OSCreateTask(task_sd_measure, TASK_SD_MEASURE_P, 7);
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the stack is the area of memory used for things like local variables and function calls. each time you call a function, some data is pushed on to the stack including the return address for the function. some space on the stack may be allocated for local variables. you can look at the stack as a linear array of memory that starts with a pointer pointing to the highest address in the array. every time a function is called, the required data is pushed on to the stack and the pointer is moved down. then inside the function if there are local variables the pointer is moved down by enough to make room for those. when a function returns the pointer is moved back up to deallocate the memory.

Call stack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

in any case, your stack size argument will be in bytes, not bits, and it needs to be reasonably sized. it all depends on your application and system, but values like 3,11 and 7 are WAY too small. something in the hundreds or thousands of bytes would be needed in most cases.

I am not asking about the code. I am simply asking what the stack size is meaning. Thank you dmh2000, this code is just to give you an idea of why I needed to know stack size. That is just some piece of pumpkins code they have available. As for salem. I was not asking anything about the function? I was simply asking about the call stack, don't get all hostile haha. And thank you for the info on what the P is meaning in there.