Re: Equivalent to C++'s 'this' for tasks?

[Dale Stanbrough <dale@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>]

Robert I. Eachus writes:

"   See C.7.1, package Ada.Task_Identification.  If the Ada compiler
 you are using doesn't provide this package (it is in the Systems
 Programming Annex), then there are other messier solutions.
 
    However, since this package isn't all that hard to implement, I
 suspect that even with an Ada 83 compiler the easiest solution is to
 build it yourself.  (You will probably have to look at some
 disassembled code to find the right run-time calls if the compiler
 implementor doesn't provide that documenation.)"


No, this won't do at all. There is no way to make entry calls from a
task id, so how could the objects that are passed this id query the
state of the task?

I would like something that doesn't require delving into stuff that
the rationale claims is mainly used for building scheduling systems.


Dale