About ChorusOS 5.0 Documentation

ChorusOS 5.0 Application Developer Collection

The ChorusOS 5.0 Application Developer Collection contains documents relevant to software application developers working in the ChorusOS environment. A brief description of each document in this collection follows.

Table 3-2 ChorusOS 5.0 Application Developer Collection

Document title 

Description 

ChorusOS 5.0 Features and Architecture Overview

This guide describes the features and architecture of the ChorusOS operating system. It serves as a general overview of the architecture of the ChorusOS operating system, presenting its particularities and advantages, as well as introducing all its features and components. 

This guide is intended for all users. 

ChorusOS 5.0 Application Developer's Guide

This guide demonstrates the key tasks developers perform when creating applications to run on ChorusOS systems. It does not cover hardware support such as bus and device driver development, subsystem development, system internals, installation, general system architecture or system administration, though it does incorporate parts of some of these as necessary to illustrate specific aspects of ChorusOS application development. 

This book is intended for application developers and describes how to build applications using the range of ChorusOS APIs through code examples. 

ChorusOS 5.0 Debugging Guide

This guide presents the source-level debugging architecture of the ChorusOS operating system. It provides an overview of the GNU GDB debugger and of the Insight graphical user interface, and highlights the modifications to these tools that are specific to the ChorusOS operating system. It discusses the use of these tools to debug ChorusOS applications and systems. 

This book is intended for application developers.