Re: Ada tasks: processes or threads

["Frank Christiny" <fchristiny@houston.rr.com>]

      Ooops!  I just found out OC Systems' compiler DOES map Ada
  tasks to AIX threads.  All I need to find out is whether this applies to
  all their versions of PowerAda...
--
Frank Christiny


"Frank Christiny" <fchristiny@houston.rr.com> wrote in message
news:eWyj8.80098$6j2.4551742@typhoon.austin.rr.com...
> Dear All,
>
>       Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to me, from a cursory
>    research on the subject, that it depends entirely on the compiler, not
>    the programmer, as to whether Ada tasks are spawned as child
>    processes or as threads.  For example, DEC's Ada 3.5 for OpenVMS
>    seems to be of the latter persuasion while OC Systems' PowerAda
>    3.1 for AIX does the former.  Am I in the right track?
>
>        What I am trying to discern is whether my version of Ada95,
>    PowerAda 3.1, can do multithreading in the multithreaded
>    environment of AIX if I so choose to or am I stuck with spawns
>    only?  If I need to get me some special libraries in order to create
>    threads, which are they and where do I find them?
>
> Thanks!
> --
> Frank Christiny
> Houston, TX
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