Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The OSAL global state structure has two flags, one for "initialized" (set during OS_API_Init) and one for shutdown (set during OS_ApplicationShutdown). Although similar in purpose, they are defined and work differently.

Describe the solution you'd like
Should combine these into just one state variable, which should be 0 prior to initialization (i.e. such that the application loader provided by the OS will zero it before OSAL loads), then set to a nonzero value for normal runtime, and another special nonzero value for shutdown.

Additional context
Just a suggestion for cleaning up/simplifying what is already there...

Structure defined here:

Using a full 32 bit value with all bits - even though there are only a few states - provides protection in case of a random bit flip. At least in the case of an application shutdown, the entire system operation shouldn't be dependent on a single bit in memory. This is why the current "shutdown flag" is not just a simple 0/1. So this should be preserved, but it should be trivial to combine this with the "Initialized" field.

Requester Info
Joseph Hickey, Vantage Systems, Inc.