From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,8da181ade72859cf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Jano Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: timeouts Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:38:27 +0200 Message-ID: <2p63roFgloq0U1@uni-berlin.de> References: <2jVUc.13319$Fg5.12445@attbi_s53> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de VkgAoRV8YmSo7z/dVktJ/A6L4uM6mu9ygbJWMRut7M5t7uC30= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040626) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <2jVUc.13319$Fg5.12445@attbi_s53> Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3030 Date: 2004-08-26T14:38:27+02:00 List-Id: Steve wrote: > What version of GNAT? > I vaguely recall a gnat bug having to do with time. Unfortunately I can't > recall the particulars. Maybe someone else on the list will remember. I was bitten by it. It involves Gnat 3.15p on Windows. Delays can mis-delay for unknown periods of time, effectively suggesting that tasks are locked when they are not. I'm not sure if it is needed to use Ada.Real_Time mixed with Ada.Calendar for it to trigger... in any case, if the OP is using this platform, he should patch it just in case anyway. And I concur with some other poster: is too bad that the latest public release of gnat for windows carries two or three traps like this not mentioned in the users guide for NT. These are long-time known and fixed bugs, at least a link in the download page to some bugs page would be of interest (that's to say, if nobody at ACT is interested in or have the time to re-package 3.15p or make a new public release).