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,XPRIO autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c02e0ad89ef0dfec,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-12 18:38:16 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone.tampabay.rr.com!cyclone.austin.rr.com!typhoon.austin.rr.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Frank Christiny" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Ada tasks: processes or threads X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 02:35:54 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.160.122.71 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: typhoon.austin.rr.com 1015986954 24.160.122.71 (Tue, 12 Mar 2002 20:35:54 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 20:35:54 CST Organization: Road Runner - Texas Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21142 Date: 2002-03-13T02:35:54+00:00 List-Id: Dear All, Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to me, from a cursory research on the subject, that it depends entirely on the compiler, not the programmer, as to whether Ada tasks are spawned as child processes or as threads. For example, DEC's Ada 3.5 for OpenVMS seems to be of the latter persuasion while OC Systems' PowerAda 3.1 for AIX does the former. Am I in the right track? What I am trying to discern is whether my version of Ada95, PowerAda 3.1, can do multithreading in the multithreaded environment of AIX if I so choose to or am I stuck with spawns only? If I need to get me some special libraries in order to create threads, which are they and where do I find them? Thanks! -- Frank Christiny Houston, TX