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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: RFC: Prototype for a user threading library in Ada
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2016 20:26:16 +0300
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On 16-07-02 14:13 , Hadrien Grasland wrote:
>
> What I would love in the end is some kind of static analysis tool
> that warns people about shared mutable data in multitasking programs,
> but gives a way to bypass the warning to people who actually know
> what they are doing.

AdaControl can do that, and I believe CodePeer can do it too.

> But to make this warning useful would also entail introducing a
> notion of "deferred constants", that is, values which are defined at
> runtime but will not be modified subsequently. Otherwise, there would
> be too many false positives about program parameters that are loaded
> at runtime.

Static analysis tools always have ways to manually silence alarms that 
have been determined (my manual analysis) to be false positives.

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Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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