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From: Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Task origin track from a class
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:36:29 -0700 (PDT)
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On Jul 12, 5:31=A0am, Simon Wright <si...@pushface.org> wrote:
> Simon Wright <si...@pushface.org> writes:
> > "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
>
> >> So the unfortunate rule of the thumb is: never use task components,
> >> but access to task instead. From Finalize you would call Stop entry or
> >> an equivalent and then free the task object using
> >> Unchecked_Deallocation.
>
> > With GNAT, best not to free the task object until 'Terminated is True
> > (GNAT's I have used would silently fail to actually free the TCB!
> > resulting in an insidious memory leak).
>
> Oops, I forgot to add that I'd aborted the task first (as Dmitry said,
> it's not always possible to arrange a clean shutdown).

Hm, would it be a usable idea for say the memory manager for an OS,
such that the requests to the manager from programs (and perhaps even
compilers) are delegated to the task; after all you don't want to shut
the memory-manager down (terminate the task) at any point in normal
operation.