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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8d2436f043922920 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!nwrdny01.gnilink.net.POSTED!0f19ed38!not-for-mail From: "Frank J. Lhota" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3111219.u9MCLuGHov@linux1.krischik.com> Subject: Re: GNAT and Ada.Asynchronous_Task_Control X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 20:34:20 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.203.219.109 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny01.gnilink.net 1083702860 151.203.219.109 (Tue, 04 May 2004 16:34:20 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 16:34:20 EDT Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:255 Date: 2004-05-04T20:34:20+00:00 List-Id: Looking at both the 3.15p version and the CVS version of GNAT, it appears that the package System.Task_Primitives.Operations defines the procedures Suspend_Task and Resume_Task needed to do the OS-specific work of Ada.Asynchronous_Task_Control. This really has me puzzled, for it seems like GNAT has 95% of the intrastructure needed for a portable implementation of Ada.Asynchronous_Task_Control. Why not complete the job and implement the package?