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From: Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Passing Ada Proc as a C Function Pointer
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On Aug 4, 3:46=A0pm, Simon Wright <si...@pushface.org> wrote:
> I would be a bit worried about Thread_Proc's *Ada* environment. There's
> this thing called the Secondary Stack, used for - for example - string
> catenation; and it's not set up here.

Yikes, that could be a problem. I vaguely remember something about
a "secondary stack".  I'm going to need to research this.

> I think you'll be OK so long as you restrain yourself! Twiddling LEDs
> should be OK.

Well LED twiddling is just the "hello world" test.  I hope to do
a lot more than that, down the road!

> There may be a pragma to prevent secondary stack usage?

I'm all ears! ;-)

Warren