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"J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> writes:

> ATC is here because a number of guys from the real-time community
> called for it. And it's certainly usable for bare-metal embedded
> targets. I would say that if you are programming a bare-metal embedded
> target, portability to Windows is not your first concern ;-)

Our target was VxWorks, but we did a great deal of our testing on
Windows (on the host because of lack of target hardware, and on Windows
because of corporate/MoD insistence). We didn't use ATC for target code,
but we did use it on one or two occasions to ensure that a host test
couldn't hang indefinitely, but rather fail. As far as I remember we
tested that ATC would have the desired effect if triggered, but whether
it ever actually got triggered by some locked-up software-under-test I
can't say.