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From: Jano <notelacreas@porfavor.no>
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Subject: Re: timeouts
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:17:52 +0200
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Brian May wrote:

> With gnat 3.15p, after approx 12 hours, my timeouts stopped working
> and/or took excessively long (e.g. in the order of hours instead of
> 0.1 of a second).

According to my experience, the bug can take any arbitrary amount of 
time to appear. I had a test program with intensive tasking which would 
trigger it in much less than 12 hours, usually around an hour and 
sometimes in 10 minutes.