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From: r_c_chapman@my-deja.com
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Subject: Re: Help with Atomic_Components and whole array assignment
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:39:35 GMT
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In article <94hml1$o64$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
> pragma Atomic merely says that two tasks cannot intefere with
> one another...

Ah..got it..of course, from the point of view of another Ada task,
the writes can be combined.  This means I've mis-understood Atomic
for at least the last 4 years... :-(

Package Machine_Code here we come...
 - Rod


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