In the previous chapter section, I specified that a task is either an infinite loop function or a function that deletes itself when it is done executing. Note that the task code is not actually deleted — µC/OS-II simply doesn’t know about the task anymore, so that code will not run. A task looks just like any other C function, containing a return type and an argument, but it must never return. The return type of a task must always be declared void. The functions described in this chapter are found in the file OS_TASK.C. To review, a task must have one of the two structures:
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