From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
Subject: Re: Barrier re-evaluation issue with GNAT 4.3.2
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:57:42 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2009-09-25T02:57:42-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3695a362-5c8f-460e-808e-007bdcac3cd0@e34g2000vbm.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: rcfj2mz9pjnu$.pem92yd9ybip.dlg@40tude.net
Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> Timing_Events does not have any advantages over delay or asynchronous
> transfer of control. I guess it was provided for some low-level stuff like
> interrupts from hardware timers. However there was already a support for
> interrupts mapped into protected operations, so it really puzzles me why
> Timing_Events were added.
The reasons are explained in AI95-297. It seems you've never written
any low-level code before, or cared about it?
[1] http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ais/ai-00297.txt?rev=1.25
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Ludovic Brenta.
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-24 17:02 Barrier re-evaluation issue with GNAT 4.3.2 Reto Buerki
2009-09-24 17:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-09-25 8:50 ` Brad Moore
2009-09-25 9:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-09-25 9:57 ` Ludovic Brenta [this message]
2009-09-25 10:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-09-25 11:23 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2009-09-28 10:41 ` Reto Buerki
2009-09-25 17:06 ` Brad Moore
2009-09-25 18:42 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-09-25 19:39 ` Brad Moore
2009-09-28 10:18 ` Reto Buerki
2009-09-25 15:56 ` John B. Matthews
2009-09-26 14:23 ` John B. Matthews
2009-09-28 10:28 ` Reto Buerki
2009-09-28 12:39 ` John B. Matthews
2009-09-28 13:25 ` Reto Buerki
2009-09-28 14:05 ` Reto Buerki
2009-09-28 18:38 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-09-28 18:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-09-29 8:37 ` Reto Buerki
2009-09-28 21:13 ` Robert A Duff
2009-09-28 22:28 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-10-10 5:41 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-09-29 8:30 ` Reto Buerki
2009-09-29 15:06 ` John B. Matthews
2009-09-30 14:12 ` Reto Buerki
2009-09-30 15:59 ` John B. Matthews
2009-10-01 16:12 ` John B. Matthews
2009-10-01 17:17 ` Anh Vo
2009-10-02 2:26 ` John B. Matthews
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