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On Friday, 17 November 2017 21:39:51 UTC, Niklas Holsti  wrote:

> No, the environment task becomes one of the working application tasks=20
> (why waste its stack space?), so more like
>=20
>     loop
>        Wait_For_Trigger_Or_Time;
>        Do_Something_Useful;
>     end loop;

Very late reply: the reason I haven=E2=80=99t done that is because so far I=
=E2=80=99ve been=20
writing just demo applications: for real, one would at least have something=
=20
like system health monitoring or watchdogging to do.

I=E2=80=99ve discovered that elaboration can use surprising amounts of stac=
k,=20
especially if there are containers involved.