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From: Jano <notelacreas@porfavor.no>
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Subject: Re: Basic program with tasks goes out of memory
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 13:23:01 +0200
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Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote:
> If (like me) you don't like busy waiting, you can do the following:
> begin
>    Dummy.Never_Accepted;
> exception
>    when Tasking_Error =>
>       null;
> end;

> Of course, the entry Never_Accepted is never accepted, but the
> run-time will raise Tasking_Error in waiting tasks when Dummy 
> completes. (Strictly speaking, if you are on a multi-processor or if
> the waiting task is of higher priority than Dummy, you should still
> have a loop to wait for the task to terminate, but in this case the
> busy loop would be presumably executed only once).

Nice trick.