diff -r 000000000000 -r a41df078684a kerneltest/e32test/system/t_reason.cpp
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+++ b/kerneltest/e32test/system/t_reason.cpp	Mon Oct 19 15:55:17 2009 +0100
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+// Copyright (c) 1997-2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
+// All rights reserved.
+// This component and the accompanying materials are made available
+// under the terms of the License "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
+// which accompanies this distribution, and is available
+// at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
+//
+// Initial Contributors:
+// Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+//
+// Contributors:
+//
+// Description:
+// e32test\system\t_reason.cpp
+// Debugging aid which prints the ESHELL startup banner down the serial port, as an
+// aid to debugging repeated bleep-bleep-bleep restarting. 
+// 
+//
+
+#include "e32std.h"
+#include "e32std_private.h"
+#include "e32svr.h"
+#include "e32hal.h"
+
+TUint j;
+
+TInt E32Main()
+	{
+
+	FOREVER
+		{
+		TMachineStartupType reason;
+		UserHal::StartupReason(reason);
+		switch (reason)
+			{
+			case EStartupCold:		RDebug::Print(_L("Cold Start    ")); break;
+			case EStartupColdReset: 	RDebug::Print(_L("Cold Reset    ")); break;
+			case EStartupNewOs: 		RDebug::Print(_L("New OS        ")); break;
+			case EStartupPowerFail:		RDebug::Print(_L("Power failed  ")); break;
+			case EStartupWarmReset:		RDebug::Print(_L("Warm Reset    ")); break;
+			case EStartupKernelFault:	
+				TInt faultno;
+				UserHal::FaultReason(faultno);
+				if (faultno == 0x10000000)
+					RDebug::Print(_L("Kernel Exception  "));
+				else
+				if (faultno >= 0x10000)
+					RDebug::Print(_L("Kernel PANIC: %d  "), faultno-0x10000);
+				else
+					RDebug::Print(_L("Kernel FAULT: %d  "), faultno);
+				break;
+			case EStartupSafeReset:		RDebug::Print(_L("Safe Reset    ")); break;
+			default:
+				RDebug::Print(_L("<?reason=%d>  "), reason);
+				break;
+			}
+
+		if (reason==EStartupWarmReset || reason==EStartupPowerFail || reason==EStartupKernelFault)
+			{
+			TInt exceptno;
+			TExcInfo exceptInfo;
+			UserHal::ExceptionId(exceptno);
+			UserHal::ExceptionInfo(exceptInfo);
+			RDebug::Print(_L("(last exception %d: code %08x data %08x) "), exceptno, exceptInfo.iCodeAddress,exceptInfo.iDataAddress);
+			}
+
+		RDebug::Print(_L("\r\n\nCopyright (C) 1997-1999 Symbian Ltd\r\n\n"));
+
+		for (TInt i=0; i<1000000; i++)
+			j=i%17;	// waste some time
+		}
+	}