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From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: tasking in Ada and Annex D question
Date: 1999/02/02
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In article <793jl9$hf@drn.newsguy.com>,
  nabbasi@earthlink.net wrote:

> 1. How could FSU be an Annex D compliant, if one thread
> will block the other like this? (even though one will
> expect that doing an IO message will cause a task to
> yield the CPU).

Annex D requires run till blocked semantics, and forbids
any kind of time slicing.

You say that you "expect" that doing an IO message will
cause a task to yield the CPU.

You can expect anything you like, but you read no such
requirement in the RM, because there is no such
requirement!

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