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: 2002-03-13 20:49:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: x24702@usma.edu (Zach Swanson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada tasks: processes or threads Date: 13 Mar 2002 20:49:05 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <50c1a1b.0203132049.3c729ad0@posting.google.com> References: <3C8EC270.1030006@telepath.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 134.240.36.230 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1016081345 23743 127.0.0.1 (14 Mar 2002 04:49:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Mar 2002 04:49:05 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21188 Date: 2002-03-14T04:49:05+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison 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