In most cases, really only 1 element is needed. The dynamic allocation
handles cases where more are necessary. This is all done within a locked
state, so no races can occur.
Frees roughly 2.3KB RAM.
These headers files were missing from the header files that
I added them to; the fact that they were missing didn't
lead to compile errors because by coincidence the missing
headers are included in the source files before including
these headers. But, after the reordering of header inclusions
by Tools/fix_headers.sh, these cases will give rise to compiler
errors.
Update the comment, to explain how to achive a different perescale
value.
Added PX4_IO_TIMER_ALTERNATE_RATE one board agnostic ifdef
PX4_IO_TIMER_ALTERNATE_RATE that is non board specific.
N.B. I would like to eliminate PX4_IO_TIMER_ALTERNATE_RATE
as well, but I need crazyflie HW to validate that the startup
script can just set the rate on the PWM to 3921 fast enough to
not effect the motors.
1) Remove uneeded spi and reset code
2) Use the Board commin for providing the BOARD_NAME
3) Add PX4_PWM_ALTERNATE_RANGES in suport of a board agnostic
way to override the PWM_.*_{MIN|MAX} values
4) Remove #ifdefs from the IO timers*. Drive the config deltas
from the crazyflie_timer_config.c and one board agnostic
ifdef PX4_IO_TIMER_ALTERNATE_RATE that is non board specific
*I would like to eliminate PX4_IO_TIMER_ALTERNATE_RATE
as well, but I need HW to validate that the startup
script can just set the rate on the PWM to 3921 fast
enough to not effect the motors.
We don't have C++ unsafe headers (anymore).
I added a test to fix_headers.sh that checks if certain "unsafe"
headers are ONLY included inside a __BEGIN_DECLS ... __END_DECLS
(because after all, they are unsafe), as well as checking that
no other header files are included inside such a block. The rationale
of the latter is that if a file is a C header and it declares
function prototypes (otherwise it doesn't matter) and is sometimes
included outside a __BEGIN_DECLS ... __END_DECLS block (from a C++
source file) then it has to be C++ safe and doesn't ever to be
included from inside such a block; while if a file is a C++ header
then obviously it should never be included from such a block.
fix_headers.sh subsequently found several safe headers to be
included from inside such a block, and those that were (apparently
in the past) unsafe were included only sometimes inside such a
block and often outside it. I had a look at those files and saw
that at least an attempt has been made to make them C++ safe,
but especially because they already are included OFTEN outside
a __BEGIN_DECLS ... __END_DECLS (from C++ source files) the
best decision seems to treat them as safe.
This is not risky: .c files that define such functions still
generate C-linkage for their functions. If a C++ unsafe C header
is included outside a __BEGIN_DECLS ... __END_DECLS block then
the only possible result would be an undefined reference to
a function with C++-linkage that will not exist. Aka, when
something links after this commit, then the commit was correct.
I did build all targets and they all linked.
This patch reorders px4_defines.h to make it more readable (I think)
but more importantly, cleans up the #include <math.h>/<cmath>
and [std::]isfinite stuff.
My main goal was to completely get rid of including math.h/cmath,
because that doesn't really belong in a header that is supposed to
define macro's and is included in almost every source file (if not
all).
I'm not sure what it did before ;) (pun intended), but now it does
the following:
PX4_ISFINITE is only used in C++ code (that was already the case,
but hereby is official; for C code just use 'isfinite()') and is
defined to be std::isfinite, except on __PX4_QURT because that uses
the HEXAGON toolset which (erroneously) defines isfinite as macro.
I would have liked to remove PX4_ISFINITE completely from the code
and just use std::isfinite whereever that is needed, but that would
have required changing the libecl submodule, and at the moment I'm
getting tired of changing submodules... so maybe something for the
future.
Also, all includes of <math.h> or <cmath> have been removed except
for __PX4_NUTTX. Like the HEXAGON toolset NuttX currently defines
isfinite as macro for C++. So, we could have solved this in the
same was as __P4_QURT; but since we can fix NuttX ourselves I chose
to add a kludge to px4_defines.h instead that fixes this problem,
until the time that NuttX can be fixed (again postponing changing
a submodule). The kludge still demands including <cmath>, thus.
After removal of the math header file, it needed to be included
in source files that actually need it, of course.
Finally, I had a look at the math macro's (like M_PI, M_PI_F,
M_DEG_TO_RAD etc). These are sometimes (erroneously) defined in
certain math.h header files (like both, hexagon and nuttx).
This is incorrect: neither the C nor the C++ standard defines
math constants (neither as macro nor otherwise). The "problem"
here was that px4_defines.h defined some of the M_*_F float
constants in terms of the M_* double constant, which are
sometimes not defined either thus. So, I cleaned this up by
defining the M_*_F math constants as float literals in px4_defines.h,
except when they are defined in math.h for that platform.
This means that math.h has to be always included when using those
constants, but well; not much difference there as those files
usually also need/use the macro NAN (which *is* a standard macro
defined by math.h).
Finally finally, DEFAULT_PARAM_FILE was removed as it isn't
used anymore.
All in all I think the resulting px4_defines.h is nice, giving me
much less the feeling of a nearly unmaintainable and over time
slowly growing collection of kludges and hacks.
Lucas De Marchi