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Peter C. Chapin wrote:
> 
> Build a C++ library that wraps the threading primitives of several 
> platforms and then generate C++ code that uses that library. Are you 
> saying that the semantics of Ada tasking are such that conversion into 
> standard C++ is impossible---that is, without resorting to assembly 
> language glue here and there? No matter what you do you're pretty much 
> going to have to build an operating system specific run-time at some 
> point. Whether you do that in C++ or some other way, I don't see that it 
> matters. It's all business as usual when one builds a compiler that 
> targets a particular system.

Since we'd previously, in the same post being replied to, discussed the use of a 
custom library, I thought it obvious that I was referring to doing so without 
having to build one.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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