Re: One-time object

[stt@henning.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft)]

In article <"bOc9v2.0.Fr5.VGz5l"@autan>,
Samuel Tardieu  <sam@email.enst.fr> wrote:

>I've got two questions for you adaers, which may be in fact one single
>question:
>
>  1) In the body of the package "Foo", I create a task "Bar":
>
>	task Bar;
>	task body Bar is
>	begin
>	   <Do something>
>	end Bar;
>
>      If my program is made of a "Main" procedure, which requires two
>      packages "Pack1" and "Pack2", which both require the
>      "Foo" package, what will happen ? Will I have one or two
>      occurences of the "Bar" task ?

One.  A "with" clause is a compile-time request for visibility
on some other compilation unit.  There is no corresponding
action at run-time associated with each "with" clause.

If a compilation unit is mentioned in one *or more* with clauses,
then *one* copy of it will be included in the executable built 
by the linker.

>  2) Same question with a protected object: if I declare an occurence
>     of a protected object in a package specification, will this
>     object be unique even if the package is with-ed several times or
>     will I have one occurence by with ?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>  Sam
>
>PS: if the answer is "You'll have as many occurences as with", could
>    you please tell me how I can do to obtain only one occurence ?

The number of with clauses is irrelevant, so long as you reference
the unit at least once from somewhere.

-Tucker Taft  stt@inmet.com
Intermetrics, Inc.