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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






  reply	other threads:[~1996-12-10  0:00 UTC|newest]

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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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