Re: Difference between taskRestart() and taskDelete() + taskSpawn()

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"Michael R. Kesti" <mrkesti@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This is from the taskRestart entry of the V5.5 OS Libraries API Reference
Manual.

This routine â??restartsâ?? a task. The task is first terminated, and
then re-initialized with the same ID, priority, options, original
entry point, stack size, and parameters it had when it was terminated.
Self-restarting of a calling task is performed by the exception task.
The shell utilizes this routine to restart itself when aborted.

I suppose we could be more certain if they had said "deleted" rather than
"terminated" and "spawned" rather than "re-initialized" but it appears
that a restart is equivalent to a delete and a spawn

It is not equivalent, a delete and a spawn will free all resources, and
a spawn will allocate the required resources. A restart uses the
resources already allocated for a task, which means a restart will
be quicker.

What resources are freed by taskDelete() and allocated by taskSpawn()?

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