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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,892f841b317b302e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Format string bugs & race conditions References: <1c2f5137.0410160128.7ef88436@posting.google.com> <1097990937.246146@yasure> <1098040682.977030@yasure> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:20:43 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1098202742 198.96.223.163 (Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:19:02 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:19:02 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5466 Date: 2004-10-19T12:20:43-04:00 List-Id: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen wrote: >>>>>>"BK" == Benjamin Ketcham writes: > > > 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? ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg