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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: task activation
Date: 1999/12/06
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In article <x7vpuwnll5s.fsf@pogner.demon.co.uk>,
  Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> As Robert Dewar has mentioned a few times recently, library
> level tasks can give you real headaches at elaboration time,
> at any rate if you use GNAT's default elaboration scheme. The
> style guide may need a bit of a rethink in this area (at least
> to lay out the problems and options).

Not such a headache, one of the following usually works fine

Separate the task type declaration and task object declaration
into separate units.

Suppress elaboration checks in the task body if you know the
body is not executed till after elaboration is complete.

Use the pragma Restrictions to say that no entry calls appear
in elaboraiton code.




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