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Subject: Re: The future of Ada is at risk
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On Dec 30, 1:30 pm, Florian Weimer <f...@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
>    [...] 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. The program had over 300 tasks, all statically
allocated. Basically the
entire program was running during elaboration. The problems with
elaboration order and
task stacks all went away "magically" after changing the tasks to task
types/access-to-task
objects and explicit Init procedures for allocating the task objects
from the main program.

Just my EUR 0.02

Oliver