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From: "Matthew Heaney" <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: generic package dilemma
Date: 1999/11/22
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In article <81bqg4$55t$1@nnrp1.deja.com> , Robert Dewar 
<robert_dewar@my-deja.com>  wrote:

> Note that in default mode, GNAT supplies the recommended
> Elaborate_All pragmas implicitly, and it is very rare that
> new Ada 95 code runs into trouble with this rule (the most
> common case is where tasks are started at elaboration time).
> In no cases has the solution been to use pragma Elaborate.

For tasks that are started at elaboration time, what is the intended
solution?  To use the elaborate_all pragma on the packages called by the
task?  Or is there some other solution?


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