Re: Format string bugs & race conditions

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>]

Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen wrote:
>>>>>>"BK" == Benjamin Ketcham <bketcham@drizzle.com> writes:
> <snip>
> 
>     BK> I consider tasking difficult to separate from issues of process
>     BK> management; and that in turn is difficult to separate from dependence
>     BK> on the OS.  I.e., it's not always a great idea to build this into
>     BK> the language, any more than it'd be to build in graphical I/O.
>     BK> In both cases, many people would be happy to have the things built-in,
>     BK> and many would find uses for the built-in constructs, but others will
>     BK> find deficiencies and will have to go outside the language.
> 
>     BK> --Benjamin
> 
> Actually, having tasking built-in is an excellent idea. It gives you a
> much higher probability that programs which use tasking actually will
> be portable. And if you have access to the source of the tasking run
> time, or it has a published interface, you can always reimplement the
> tasking run-time to suit your needs. If you don't like the language's
> tasking *model*, that's a bit tougher. In this case some languages
> (including Ada, see annex D.10) let you have access to more primitive
> operations which can be used to roll your own.

The downside of this, is that it is a bigger pain to get a compiler
implementation going on a new platform. Anyone got GNAT working for
plan 9 yet? ;-)

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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
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