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From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>
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Subject: Re: GNAT and large number of threads
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:45:10 +0300
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Wiktor Moskwa wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm using GNAT GPL 2006 on Linux x86.
> Recently I had a problem with creating large number of tasks(*) in my
> Ada program. I create tasks in a loop and when I reach the limit of
> stack address space the main thread freezes - no exceptions, nothing.

This happened to me in 3.15p for windows long ago, but I suppose it's the
same issue.

You can have thousands of tasks with a reasonable stack size. I don't know
how to know the number in advance, sorry.