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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: The future of Ada is at risk
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:22:47 +0100
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>>    [...] My impression that most commercial GNAT users do
>> not use tasking, or use it on freestanding implementations (that is, not
>> GNU/Linux).
>
> I've been porting a large application (several 100000 executable LOC)
> to to GNU/Linux with FSF gcc-4.2.1.

FSF GCC is not commercially relevant. 8-) Its users' demands have little
influence on GNAT development, as far as I can tell.

> The program had over 300 tasks, all statically allocated.

Does the program use protected objects and conditional entry calls?