Hello, I’m using FreeRTOS on a board I made with an AT90USB647 and the compiler issues a warning on line 422 of tasks.c: FreeRTOS/tasks.c: In function ‘xTaskGenericCreate’:
FreeRTOS/tasks.c:422: error: cast from pointer to integer of different size
FreeRTOS/tasks.c:422: error: cast to pointer from integer of different size in line 422 of tasks.c i can see:
_pxTopOfStack = ( portSTACK_TYPE * ) ( ( ( unsigned long ) pxTopOfStack ) & ( ( unsigned long ) ~portBYTE_ALIGNMENT_MASK  ) );
_ in portmacro.h (based on portmacro.h in the ATMega323 example) i have:
#define portSTACK_TYPE unsigned portCHAR is this the correct portSTACK_TYPE for the AVR uController?
What should i do? change portSTACK_TYPE or change line 422 of tasks.c?
If i replace ‘long’ by ‘int’ in line 422 the warning disapears and FreeRTOS works but is this correct? Regards,
Bernardo Marques.

This warning has arrisen from a recent change and occurs on ports where the stack type is smaller than the pointer type.  I think changing the unsigned long casts to portBASE_TYPE cases might be ok, but would have to check each port individually. Regards.

Nope. It cannot be a cast to portBASE_TYPE, it will make it worse. I suppose that in AVR GCC a pointer has two bytes and the base type on the AVR is 8-bit. As pxTopOfStack must be casted to a 16-bit integer it must be to either int or portSHORT.