Re: Does this model work ?

[dennison@telepath.com]

In article <7ht5cp$531$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com> wrote:
> In article <7hs6in$g8p$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
>   dennison@telepath.com wrote:
> > The part of my post that you snipped was talking about a >
> > program that contained multiple intercommunicating tasks in a
> > Rate-monotonic system using a custom frequency-based
> > scheduler. Are you saying that it is
> > possible to write perfectly portable code in COBOL, Fortran,
> > or C that can do that?
>
> Probably not, in fact it would not even be possible to do this
> in Ada 83, so I assume you are talking about an Ada 95
> implementation here, using a compiler which is Annex D
> compliant.

Correct on all three counts. I once had to implement pretty much the
same thing in Ada 83. Due to the lack of "delay until", I had to use
several non-portable features and an OS call. Fortunately, those
problems are now ancient history.

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