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On Dec 10, 5:12 pm, shaunpatter...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hey,
>
>    What is the best / proper way to spawn a new task so that a
> function call can
> continue in the background.. like so:
>
> procedure Test is
>   begin
>
>           -- Call a callback function that may take a long time
>           FuncPtr.all
>
>           -- Continue other processing here
>
>   end Test;
>
> Is there any way to encapsulate the callback function call in another
> task WITHOUT making
> the function -- the function called by funcptr.all -- a new task?
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Shaun

procedure test is



procedure Test is

   task Labor;
   task body Labor is
   begin
      select
         delay 10.0;    -- Give a timeout for your function to do the
job
      then abort
         FuncPtr.all;
      end select;
   end Labor;

begin
   null;
end Test;