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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Your wish list for Ada 202X
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"G.B." <rm-dash-bau-haus@dash.futureapps.de> writes:

> IIRC, programs for VxWorks don't even need an Ada runtime to provide
> tasking support. Systems like these provide an opportunity for another
> profile, one that should make upgrading compilers easier.

But they do need one for Ada tasking support!

Tasking on VxWorks using Ada bindings of the VxWorks tasking primitives
would have little if any benefit over the C version. No protected types
for a start! No rendezvous!