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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
Subject: Re: How to wait for task completion
Date: 1996/09/17
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wiljan wrote:
> 
> In my case I want to wait for task completion, Not until it is almost
> completed. The code that has to wait for the task completion want to
> clean up resources when that task is terminated. If these resources
> are cleaned up before that, it will certainlly lead to erroneous execution.
> In my case I want to clean up the task object itself by using
> ada.unchecked_deallocation.

What I have seen done is creation of a stack of tasks that are currently 
unused. In this particular case each task put ITSELF on the stack when it
was done. Any time a new task was needed, it got pulled off the stack and
re-activated, or created with dynamic allocation if the stack was empty. This
setup could easily be modified to do periodic garbage collection (checking
the 'terminated attribute, just to be safe).

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