RTEMS C User's Guide
An object name is an unsigned thirty-two bit entity
associated with the object by the user. The data type
rtems_name is used to store object names.
Although not required by RTEMS, object names are often
composed of four ASCII characters which help identify that object.
For example, a task which causes a light to blink might be
called "LITE". The rtems_build_name routine
is provided to build an object name from four ASCII characters.
The following example illustrates this:
rtems_object_name my_name; my_name = rtems_build_name( 'L', 'I', 'T', 'E' );
However, it is not required that the application use ASCII characters to build object names. For example, if an application requires one-hundred tasks, it would be difficult to assign meaningful ASCII names to each task. A more convenient approach would be to name them the binary values one through one-hundred, respectively.
RTEMS C User's Guide
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