Re: Timing code blocks

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 00:33:54 -0800 (PST), Ludovic Brenta wrote:

> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote on comp.lang.ada:
>> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 22:34:47 -0800 (PST), deadlyhead wrote:
>>> The problem I'm having, though, is that the timing just isn't
>>> happening. �This code will run for 15 seconds and when I examine the
>>> time span, it tells me that no time passed.
>>
>> This is an ancient bug, which managed to survive a number of GNAT compiler
>> versions.
>>
>> As a workaround, add delay 0.0 at the beginning of your program:
> [...]
>> delay 0.0; -- Wake up that dozing Ada RTL!
> 
> I was not aware of this bug; is there a PR in Bugzilla for it?

As an active member of c.l.a. you should remember it discussed here several
times in recent years. Each time I thought - well, the next version will
certainly fix it, somebody had already reported it... (:-))

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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