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The EtherCAT Library is compatible to GOAL, port's Industrial Communication Framework.
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This chapter gives an overview on all public functions of the EtherCAT library.
For detailed information please refer to the Reference Manual. There are normal functions that must be called by the application to trigger events and there are indication functions that are called by the library. These indication functions must be implemented by the application programmer.
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These macros expect a formatted string and optional arguments like printf(). Each message gets a header that contains a letter representing the debug message level, the name of the calling function and the line within the source file.
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Activation of debugging is not recommended for release versions. Since the printing messages might block the device. |
A non-blocking variant is used if EC_CONFIG_DEBUG_NONBLOCK is defined. The messages are buffered in a ring buffer and might get lost, if the buffer is full.
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