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From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: right compilation unit for C as main?
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:04:48 +0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:13:40 -0500, Robert A Duff wrote:

> Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
>> adainit() should not block! It should set the environment up for Ada
>> and return to your C main program. Which will then call an ...ahhh, Ada
>> procedure which WILL block because the tasks it creates cannot outlive
>> it...
> 
> That's true only if it declares objects containing tasks.
> If it allocates objects containing tasks via "new",
> with the access type declared at library level, then the tasks can
> outlive their creator.

Thanks for the correction; it may give Patrick another option. (Though 
declaring tasks within the Ada procedure looks easier to get right - at 
least for a relative beginner like myself.

- Brian