Re: is there a 'wait' command in Ada

[dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

Mike said

"GNAT, for better or worse, links in delay - even a simple delay in a
non-tasking program - as part of the tasking runtime. Because of the
unfriendly relations between tasking and GDB, programs that use
simple delays don't work under our scripts. We've ended up writing
a package called Sleep_Package, which exports a procedure Sleep
that just uses a simple Unix sleep call. That works fine, but the
students scratch their heads about why they have to change their code
because the Ada in the book doesn't behave as advertised.

Well, Robert, you asked the question, so I had to answer it.:-)"



Ah ha! "don't work under our scripts", so just possibly this is a Feldman
scriopt issue and not a fundamental Ada issue :-)