From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Robert Dewar's great article about the Strengths of Ada over other langauges in multiprocessing!
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:46:09 -0500
Date: 2008-04-16T23:46:09-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fu6knf$70s$1@jacob-sparre.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wvbrtzi32uig.fsf@astra06.norway.sun.com
"Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen"
<ole-hjalmar.kristensen@substitute_employer_here.com> wrote in message
news:wvbrtzi32uig.fsf@astra06.norway.sun.com...
...
> The sections I have reproduced below is the closest I could get. Since
> Suspend_Until_True is potentially blocking, it *could* be signaled (as
> defined in 9.10), but I find it strange that it is not mentioned
> explicitly. Also, the statement "can be used for two-stage suspend
> operations and as a simple building block for implementing
> higher-level queues", seems to indicate that the intent indeed is to
> be able to use suspension objects to synchronize access to shared
> variables. Comments, anyone?
Looks like a bug in the RM to me. Surely the intent is that these operations
"signal" (what good are they otherwise?), but without some sort of statement
to that effect, you (and implementers) just have to guess. You should submit
a comment to Ada-Comment.
Randy.
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2008-03-08 6:04 Robert Dewar's great article about the Strengths of Ada over other langauges in multiprocessing! ME
2008-03-08 22:11 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-09 1:09 ` Christopher Henrich
2008-03-09 13:52 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-09 1:51 ` Phaedrus
2008-03-09 3:17 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-03-09 13:59 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-09 3:15 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-03-09 13:32 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-09 14:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-03-09 18:26 ` Phaedrus
2008-03-10 0:04 ` Ray Blaak
2008-03-10 7:49 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-03-10 16:48 ` Ray Blaak
2008-03-10 7:53 ` Phaedrus
2008-03-09 22:31 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-03-10 3:53 ` gpriv
2008-03-10 3:04 ` Robert Dewar's great article about the Strengths of Ada over Larry Kilgallen
2008-03-10 9:23 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-10 19:01 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-03-10 22:00 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-11 0:48 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-03-11 7:12 ` Pascal Obry
2008-03-11 8:59 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-11 9:49 ` GNAT bug, Assert_Failure at atree.adb:2893 Ludovic Brenta
2008-03-14 20:03 ` Robert Dewar's great article about the Strengths of Ada over Ivan Levashew
2008-03-22 21:12 ` Florian Weimer
2008-03-09 8:20 ` Robert Dewar's great article about the Strengths of Ada over other langauges in multiprocessing! Pascal Obry
2008-03-09 9:39 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-03-09 12:40 ` Vadim Godunko
2008-03-09 13:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-03-09 14:41 ` Vadim Godunko
2008-03-10 20:51 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-03-10 22:30 ` Niklas Holsti
2008-03-10 9:56 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-03-11 13:58 ` george.priv
2008-03-11 15:41 ` Vadim Godunko
2008-03-12 0:32 ` gpriv
2008-03-12 13:33 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-12 14:41 ` gpriv
2008-03-12 15:22 ` Vadim Godunko
2008-03-13 0:34 ` gpriv
2008-03-12 16:28 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-12 17:24 ` Samuel Tardieu
2008-03-13 8:41 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-13 15:20 ` Samuel Tardieu
2008-03-12 23:54 ` gpriv
2008-03-13 9:40 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-13 10:49 ` Peter C. Chapin
2008-03-13 13:03 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2008-03-13 14:02 ` gpriv
2008-03-14 1:12 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-03-14 10:16 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2008-03-13 11:42 ` gpriv
2008-03-13 16:10 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-13 16:16 ` gpriv
2008-03-13 22:01 ` Simon Wright
2008-03-13 22:25 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-14 2:07 ` gpriv
2008-03-14 9:29 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-14 21:54 ` Simon Wright
2008-03-15 2:29 ` gpriv
2008-03-15 13:29 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-15 16:09 ` gpriv
2008-03-11 22:09 ` gpriv
2008-03-09 13:50 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-09 14:54 ` Pascal Obry
2008-03-10 21:24 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-03-11 10:12 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2008-03-22 22:43 ` Florian Weimer
2008-03-26 13:49 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-03-26 21:27 ` Florian Weimer
2008-03-27 9:31 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-03-27 23:10 ` Florian Weimer
2008-03-28 9:51 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-03-28 18:12 ` Florian Weimer
2008-03-28 21:45 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-03-31 7:59 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-03-31 13:03 ` (see below)
2008-03-31 14:17 ` (see below)
2008-04-01 9:02 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-04-01 14:12 ` (see below)
2008-04-02 7:22 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-04-02 14:59 ` (see below)
2008-04-04 6:36 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-04-04 13:56 ` (see below)
2008-04-04 17:36 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-04-04 17:40 ` (see below)
2008-04-15 12:05 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-04-17 4:46 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2008-03-28 6:34 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-04-29 7:15 ` Ivan Levashew
2008-05-01 2:03 ` Steve Whalen
2008-03-14 19:20 ` Mike Silva
2008-03-14 20:43 ` Ed Falis
2008-03-22 22:51 ` Florian Weimer
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