Re: tasking with GNAT 3.14p on windows

Bernd Specht wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried an example from "Barnes, 18.8", but it didn't work as expected. Any 
> ideas?
> 
> with Text_IO; use Text_IO;
> 
> procedure TaskTest is
> begin
>   select
>     delay 3.0;
>     put_line ("aborted");
>   then abort
>     loop 
>       null; -- modified
>     end loop;
>   end select;
> end TaskTest;
>  
> 
> The computation is not aborted (what I would expect). Do I misunderstand 
> something?


   This example works as expected on my Red Hat 7.3 with GNAT 3.15p. I 
will try to run it on Windows 2000 to see if that is the problem.

   That would be strange anyway, since GNAT relies on pthreads for 
implementing its run-time. Is there a problem with pthreads 
implementation on Windows?

Rodrigo