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From: Samuel Tardieu <sam@email.enst.fr>
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Subject: Re: Ada replacements for DOS I/O
Date: 4 Nov 1994 09:17:11 +0100
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>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> writes:

    Robert> So the moral is, don't make *any* assumptions about how
    Robert> Ada tasks will map to an OS, ASK!

Ask ? Ok :-) How are tasks implemented in Gnat when running on a
multi-threaded OS (Solaris for example) ? And on SunOS, which
has lightweight processes ? Will it use the public/domain pthreads library ?

Thanks in advance for your answer.

  Sam
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