SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0 OR BSD-2-Clause
brief: |
  Initializes the system and starts multitasking.
copyrights:
- Copyright (C) 2015, 2020 embedded brains GmbH & Co. KG
definition:
  default:
    attributes: ${../../basedefs/if/no-return:/name}
    body: null
    params: []
    return: void
  variants: []
description: |
  Iterates through the system initialization linker set and invokes the
  registered handlers.  The final step is to start multitasking.
enabled-by: true
index-entries:
- initialize RTEMS
- start multitasking
interface-type: function
links:
- role: interface-placement
  uid: header
- role: interface-ingroup
  uid: group
- role: constraint
  uid: /constraint/directive-not-pre-qualified
- role: constraint
  uid: ../constraint/directive-ctx-boot
- role: constraint
  uid: /constraint/directive-no-return
name: rtems_initialize_executive
notes: |
  Errors in the initialization sequence are usually fatal and lead to a system
  termination.
params: []
return: null
type: interface