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diff --git a/book/en/src/by-example/software_tasks.md b/book/en/src/by-example/software_tasks.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0c9b62e --- /dev/null +++ b/book/en/src/by-example/software_tasks.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +# Software tasks & spawn + +To declare tasks in the framework the `#[task]` attribute is used on a function. +By default these tasks are referred to as software tasks as they do not have a direct coupling to +an interrupt handler. Software tasks can be spawned (started) using the `task_name::spawn()` static +method which will directly run the task given that there are no higher priority tasks running. +This is exemplified in the following: + +``` rust +{{#include ../../../../examples/spawn.rs}} +``` + +``` console +$ cargo run --target thumbv7m-none-eabi --example spawn +{{#include ../../../../ci/expected/spawn.run}} +``` |