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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:15:18 +0200
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Subject: Re: Ravenscar - program termination
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matteo.bordin@gmail.com wrote:
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> On real-time kernels supporting the Ravenscar profile, even the main 
> procedure must contain an infinite loop.

I don't think that is an Ada requirement. As I understand it, under the 
Ravenscar profile the environment task is the master of all application 
tasks, so it will await their termination; since they never terminate, 
neither does the environment task (RM 2005 10.2(25)), even if the main 
procedure terminates and returns to the body of the environment task.

I have seen a Ravenscar Ada implementation that requires the main 
procedure to end with an infinite loop, but I think that is a 
non-standard requirement. A trivial one, of course.

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Niklas Holsti
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