Issue with WIN-MinGW preventing new users to run the basic demo

Kernel
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The function prvInitialiseHeap in main.c performs a compassion of the result of vPortGetHeapStats and 0s.

https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS/blob/V10.3.1/FreeRTOS/Demo/WIN32-MingW/main.c#L373

This comparison fails because vPortGetHeapStats does not set all zeros by default, instead it uses portMAX_DELAY which defaults to 0xFFFFFFFFUL

https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS-Kernel/blob/10bbbcf0b9bcab1869b3bac3987d32116f351718/portable/MSVC-MingW/portmacro.h#L57

Because this comparison failed, the program exists and crashes the demo.

It seems this is a known issue as the master branch does not have that comparison, However there are still some other functions that are now redundant as nothing gets compared anymore.

https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS/blob/master/FreeRTOS/Demo/WIN32-MingW/main.c#L373

2

Yes - apologies for this - it was noted and fixed in the mainline some time back.