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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: task synchronization and activation
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On 19 Feb 2005 15:05:19 -0500, Robert A Duff wrote:

> So my answer to Evangelista Sami's question is, "There is no good reason
> for this design."  At least, I can't think of one.  This extra
> synchronization is just a waste of time, as far as I can tell.
> 
> One possibility is that the original designers were thinking about the
> fact that exceptions that occur before the "begin" can't be handled.
> But I don't see why that makes any real difference.

Maybe initially they wished not to have 9.2(7):

"An entry of a task can be called before the task has been activated."
 
Later on they added it, but forgot to remove the limitation...

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