From: x24702@usma.edu (Zach Swanson)
Subject: Re: Ada tasks: processes or threads
Date: 13 Mar 2002 20:49:05 -0800
Date: 2002-03-14T04:49:05+00:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: 3C8EC270.1030006@telepath.com
Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message news:<3C8EC270.1030006@telepath.com>...
> 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
> > What I am trying to discern is whether my version of Ada95,
> > PowerAda 3.1, can do multithreading in the multithreaded
The Ada standard for tasks is a multi-thread implementation, not
multi-process. All threads belong to the parent process, which is the
main compilation unit.
Zach Swanson
USMA '02
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2002-03-13 2:35 Ada tasks: processes or threads Frank Christiny
2002-03-13 2:45 ` Frank Christiny
2002-03-13 3:13 ` Ted Dennison
2002-03-14 4:49 ` Zach Swanson [this message]
2002-03-14 13:24 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-03-15 5:24 ` Zach Swanson
2002-03-14 18:15 ` Ted Dennison
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