Tasking without Protected Objects.

[patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org]

Hi Everyone

I haven't been able to program much over the past month or two, what I have written in Ada are toy sized.

For fun I have been trying to restrict myself to Ada 83 with the use of Pragma Ada_83 .

I am assuming that if Ada 83 sucked so bad then there would have been an Ada 84 revision not Ada 95.

I don't think I need very complex tasking. I don't think I need one task to call another, I just need the main task/thread to communicate with the other tasks. I am trying not to use the protected object feature from Ada 95, I am hoping shared variables will work.

If I have :

var1
var2
var3

task1
task2
task3

and if each tasks only writes to it's variable, task1 -> var1

then can the main thread read/write to var1 thru var3 without issues? Could there be a conflict with the other non-main tasks ? assuming we are not talking about writing to a file.

Thanks for reading-Patrick