diff --git a/src/components.c b/src/components.c
index 3ac7f403eae32d711914ec74d7b8f237b704113d..32409924f42da77b7defd461a7eea9f66f4e682e 100644
--- a/src/components.c
+++ b/src/components.c
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ void rt_application_init(void)
     tid = &main_thread;
     result = rt_thread_init(tid, "main", main_thread_entry, RT_NULL,
                             main_stack, sizeof(main_stack), RT_THREAD_PRIORITY_MAX / 3, 20);
-    RT_ASSERT(result != RT_ERROR);
+    RT_ASSERT(result == RT_EOK);
 #endif
 
     rt_thread_startup(tid);