Os::Task Updates

[LeStarch]

Community,

I am about to merge a change to the devel branch, which will affect the Os::Task.starct() and <active component>.start() interfaces. It is recommended you take a moment, if using devel, to update your start calls.

1. If you don't care about priority (or run without permissions to set priority), switch to calling .start() (no arguments) in your topology.
2. If you use priority, please re-write .start() calls to use the ordering .start(priority, stack size)
3. If you use CPU affinity you must switch to the following interface

.start(static_cast<NATIVE_UINT_TYPE>(priority), static_cast<NATIVE_UINT_TYPE>(stackSize), static_cast<NATIVE_UINT_TYPE>(cpu affinity));

This is to disambiguate the new API call with priority first from the old interface (superfluous thread id first).

The new API arguments are all optional, in the order: priority, stack size, affinity, identifier.

It is strongly recommended that you respond to any deprecated warnings you get when compiling. These warnings will become errors in the next release. The full work can be seen here: #992

[ThibFrgsGmz]

Given the importance of the announcement, shouldn't it be pinned for a while in the Discussions tab so that it doesn't get drowned out with the other discussions?

[LeStarch]

Done. Didn't realize one can pin announcements, thanks for the tip!