Lpc2000

>From your statement "I have run FreeRTOS apps with heavy interrupt 
>overhead for days with a default handler that does nothing but jump 
>to itself", am I correct in assuming that the handler you refer to 
>just loops to itself?

Yes. 

>If I am correct in this assumption, you should really look at doing 
>something else.

Naturally.  The only purpose of this was for my own amusment, to see if the 
interrupt was called frequently or rarely/erratically.  I was not suggesting 
this was a solution!  As I also said, those deploying real applications 
would surely check that an appropriate ISR was installed. 

Regards,
Richard. 

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