From: rgilbert@polaris.orl.mmc.com (Bob Gilbert)
Subject: Re: Uninterruptible (atomic) operation?
Date: 1996/12/10
Date: 1996-12-10T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58jjq2$a3@zeus.orl.mmc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E25tK3.3G7@world.std.com
In article <E25tK3.3G7@world.std.com>, bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) writes:
> In article <9612091326.AA04263@most>,
> W. Wesley Groleau (Wes) <wwgrol@PSESERV3.FW.HAC.COM> wrote:
> >(And if we used Ada-95 we could use pragma Atomic.)
>
> Pragma Atomic is essentially the same thing as Ada 83's pragma Shared.
> I don't think it's what you want in this case.
>
> - Bob
Perhaps it is just too obvious, or I don't understand the
question, but isn't this sort of thing that protected types
(Ada 95) or critical regions of tasks (both Ada 83 and 95)
are all about?
- Another Bob
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-12-09 0:00 Uninterruptible (atomic) operation? W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-12-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-12-10 0:00 ` Bob Gilbert [this message]
1996-12-11 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-12-11 0:00 ` Robert S. White
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1996-12-11 0:00 W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-12-09 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-12-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-13 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-12-13 0:00 ` J-P. Rosen
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