From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,7916caeb194e9cc2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-13 10:16:17 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!freenix!oleane.net!oleane!nnrp.oleane.net!not-for-mail From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Problem with intertask comm Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 19:10:47 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: <9b7c0d$qi7$1@s1.read.news.oleane.net> References: <3ad5ecf3$0$191$456d72a3@news.skynet.be> <3ad62703$0$190$456d72a3@news.skynet.be> <3aDB6.5240$FY5.383904@www.newsranger.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr X-Trace: s1.read.news.oleane.net 987181901 27207 195.25.228.57 (13 Apr 2001 17:11:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 17:11:41 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6866 Date: 2001-04-13T19:10:47+02:00 List-Id: "Ted Dennison" a �crit dans le message news: 3aDB6.5240> As a separate issue, you might want to consider a setup where tasks don't get > [...] Generally its a Bad Thing to go around destroying > task type objects and creating new ones repeatedly. Ada has to keep some > information about deallocated tasks around so that stuff like 'terminated will > work. That can cause a memory leak [...] This used to be true in Ada83 due to the so-called (hmm) Rosen's Pathology. It has been cured in Ada95. It was related to a function returning a local task object, which is no more allowed. -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr