Re: Is Text_IO.Put_Line() thread-safe?

[Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>]

On 06/14/2012 05:53 AM, awdorrin wrote:
>
> One module is called 'Common' and is a central 'shared memory' location. The
> other modules will call functions in Common to request chunks of memory in
> which to store data structures.
>
> As the modules initialize themselves, they call another routine in Common to
> wait until all tasks are ready (basically there is an array defined in common
> which has an element for each module, the module's corresponding element is
> set when the module is ready to proceed.)

This design sounds suspect to me. Everything in Common needs to be protected if 
it's being accessed by multiple tasks.

> I was having issues with this 'rendezvous' mechanism, because one of the
> modules was dying and all the other tasks were waiting on it, without giving
> any indication, so I added a Text_IO.Put_Line() to print some debug
> information.
>
> Text_IO.Put_Line( Proc_Enum'Image(thisPID)&" waiting for"&
> Proc_Enum'Image(waitPID));

Is this in Common, or in the tasks that use Common?

-- 
Jeff Carter
"English bed-wetting types."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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