Re: is there a 'wait' command in Ada

[kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <dewar.849498825@merv>, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> Mike said
> 
> "GNAT, for better or worse, links in delay - even a simple delay in a
> non-tasking program - as part of the tasking runtime. Because of the
> unfriendly relations between tasking and GDB, programs that use
> simple delays don't work under our scripts. We've ended up writing
> a package called Sleep_Package, which exports a procedure Sleep
> that just uses a simple Unix sleep call. That works fine, but the
> students scratch their heads about why they have to change their code
> because the Ada in the book doesn't behave as advertised.
> 
> Well, Robert, you asked the question, so I had to answer it.:-)"
> 
> 
> 
> Ah ha! "don't work under our scripts", so just possibly this is a Feldman
> scriopt issue and not a fundamental Ada issue :-)

Sounds to me like a debugger issue.

Larry Kilgallen