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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c02e0ad89ef0dfec X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-12 19:14:18 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!cox.net!news2.east.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C8EC270.1030006@telepath.com> From: Ted Dennison User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada tasks: processes or threads References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 03:13:32 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.12.51.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news2.east.cox.net 1015989212 68.12.51.201 (Tue, 12 Mar 2002 22:13:32 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 22:13:32 EST Organization: Cox Communications Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21144 Date: 2002-03-13T03:13:32+00:00 List-Id: Frank Christiny wrote: > Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to me, from a cursory > research on the subject, that it depends entirely on the compiler, not > the programmer, as to whether Ada tasks are spawned as child > processes or as threads. For example, DEC's Ada 3.5 for OpenVMS For that matter, every Ada task can be simulated within a single OS process (and thread). In fact, that would probably be easier for a compiler to do than putting them in separate processes. I've worked with different compilers that took each approach. > What I am trying to discern is whether my version of Ada95, > PowerAda 3.1, can do multithreading in the multithreaded That's a question for your vendor (or their docs).