23.1. Introduction

The Fatal Error Manager processes all fatal or irrecoverable errors and other sources of system termination (for example after exit()). Fatal errors are identified by the fatal source and code pair. The directives provided by the Fatal Error Manager are:

• rtems_fatal() - Invokes the fatal error handler.

• rtems_panic() - Prints the message and invokes the fatal error handler.

• rtems_shutdown_executive() - Invokes the fatal error handler.

• rtems_exception_frame_print() - Prints the exception frame.

• rtems_fatal_source_text() - Returns a descriptive text for the fatal source.

• rtems_internal_error_text() - Returns a descriptive text for the internal error code.

• rtems_fatal_error_occurred() - Invokes the fatal error handler.