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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
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"CTips" <ctips@bestweb.net> wrote in message
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> Also, Ada's only scheduling/queing discipline is FIFO with priorities
> (and priorities are only available if the RT annex is actually
> implemented). If I want to do earliest-deadline first, well, how do I go
> about doing it?

pragma Task_Dispatching_Policy (EDF_Across_Priorities);

will do the trick, presuming you have an Ada 2005 compiler that supports it.
Ada 2005 adds a number of additional scheduling policies.

                            Randy Brukardt, Editor ISO/IEC
8652:1995:AMD.1:200x