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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: ACATS & dispatching priorities
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 10:37:05 +0100
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> "Simon Wright" <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message 
> news:ly7f1sjtl7.fsf@pushface.org...
>> Robert Eachus <rieachus@comcast.net> writes:
>>
>>> On Friday, May 5, 2017 at 1:24:51 PM UTC-4, Simon Wright wrote:
>>>> ACATS 4.1 has tests CXD* which test correct Annex D behaviour. I'm
>>>> getting problems with them. See [0] for work in progress.
>>>
>>> The ACATS tests should have notations as to which tests are not
>>> appropriate for a system with multiple processor cores.  Do you by
>>> chance have that problem?
>>
>> A good thought; I was expecting the number of cores to be automatically
>> detected, but no (I think maybe it should be now we have
>> System.Multiprocessors).

> Given that 98% of the ACATS tests are older than
> System.Multiprocessors, it's not surprising that they don't use it. On
> top of which, no tests using that package would work on compilers
> older than Ada 2012 (we still maintain Ada 95 and Ada 2005 versions of
> the test suite, in part so it is isn't a GNAT-only endevour).

Actually, it's in impdefd.a (constant Processor), so my remark was about
the implementation-specific changes appropriate in a current GCC, not
the tests themselves. And FSF GCC isn't, I think, much interested in
older versions of GNAT that might be 95- or 2005-only.