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NAME="COMPAT-UITRON-OVER-ECOS">&micro;ITRON and <SPAN
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>In particular, the default configuration has time slicing
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order that one of its peers may run. This is not strictly conformant
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of task queues. Other schedulers might be different again: for example
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tested. Its benefits include reduced code size and faster execution.
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enabled, bad calls do not return errors, but cause an assert
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