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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Interrupts handling in ADA
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:34:39 +0000
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Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:

> Also, this isn't called an accept statement; it's an entry call. The way
> a task indicates it's prepared to accept an entry call is by an accept
> statement; protected objects are different. So if instead of Queue being
> protected it was a task (not something I'd recommend) the corresponding
> body part would have looked like
>
>    accept Get (M : out Message) when not Buffer.Is_Empty do

:blush: I can't believe I said that!

The relevant section of the ARM is 9.7.1, Selective Accept, and it'd
have looked like

   select
      when not Buffer.Is_Empty =>
         accept Get (M : out Message) do
            M := ...
         end Get;
      or
         accept Put ...