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From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: Equivalent to C++'s 'this' for tasks?
Date: 1997/05/22
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In article <5ltfe8$edr$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> Dale Stanbrough <dale@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> writes:

  > If I wanted to create a task...

  > would it be possible in the body of a to construct/obtain
  > a pointer to the task?

   See C.7.1, package Ada.Task_Identification.  If the Ada compiler
you are using doesn't provide this package (it is in the Systems
Programming Annex), then there are other messier solutions.

   However, since this package isn't all that hard to implement, I
suspect that even with an Ada 83 compiler the easiest solution is to
build it yourself.  (You will probably have to look at some
disassembled code to find the right run-time calls if the compiler
implementor doesn't provide that documenation.)

--

					Robert I. Eachus

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