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In article <ah4i85$n80$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> writes:

> if you are accessing the same variable from two tasks (which you do
> implicitly with Put_Line, since the default is to use an object denoted by
> the function Current_Output) this could be A Bad Thing. Accessing a shared
> variable from two threads of control is going to result in unpredictable
> behavior unless you do something to explicitly control the access.

Or unless you have a guarantee from the Ada implementation or the
operating system in that regard.