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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Barrier re-evaluation issue with GNAT 4.3.2
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:51:26 +0200
Date: 2009-09-28T20:51:25+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <149j9gmsas1fp$.1d62gknnx87q4$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: h9qv8m$nus$1@news.tornevall.net

On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:38:18 -0700, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:

> An entry call is always potentially blocking, regardless of its barrier; see ARM 
> 9.5.1. Technically, this code contains a bounded error. Since the potentially 
> blocking operation was detected, your program should raise Program_Error; GNAT 
> pretends that it hasn't detected that the operation is potentially blocking and 
> lets you get away with only a warning. Other compilers (and even other versions 
> of GNAT) may actually raise Program_Error.

A small addition to above. If you wanted to call to an entry from inside a
protected procedure you have two options:

1. the callee is made a protected procedure (can be factored out);
2. the caller is made an entry, and the call replaced with requeue.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de



  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-28 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-24 17:02 Barrier re-evaluation issue with GNAT 4.3.2 Reto Buerki
2009-09-24 17:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-09-25  8:50   ` Brad Moore
2009-09-25  9:17     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-09-25  9:57       ` Ludovic Brenta
2009-09-25 10:31         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-09-25 11:23       ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2009-09-28 10:41         ` Reto Buerki
2009-09-25 17:06       ` Brad Moore
2009-09-25 18:42         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-09-25 19:39           ` Brad Moore
2009-09-28 10:18   ` Reto Buerki
2009-09-25 15:56 ` John B. Matthews
2009-09-26 14:23   ` John B. Matthews
2009-09-28 10:28   ` Reto Buerki
2009-09-28 12:39     ` John B. Matthews
2009-09-28 13:25       ` Reto Buerki
2009-09-28 14:05         ` Reto Buerki
2009-09-28 18:38           ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-09-28 18:51             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2009-09-29  8:37               ` Reto Buerki
2009-09-28 21:13             ` Robert A Duff
2009-09-28 22:28               ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-10-10  5:41                 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-09-29  8:30             ` Reto Buerki
2009-09-29 15:06               ` John B. Matthews
2009-09-30 14:12                 ` Reto Buerki
2009-09-30 15:59                   ` John B. Matthews
2009-10-01 16:12                     ` John B. Matthews
2009-10-01 17:17                       ` Anh Vo
2009-10-02  2:26                         ` John B. Matthews
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