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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Task origin track from a class
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Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:

> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
>
>> So the unfortunate rule of the thumb is: never use task components,
>> but access to task instead. From Finalize you would call Stop entry or
>> an equivalent and then free the task object using
>> Unchecked_Deallocation.
>
> With GNAT, best not to free the task object until 'Terminated is True
> (GNAT's I have used would silently fail to actually free the TCB!
> resulting in an insidious memory leak).

Oops, I forgot to add that I'd aborted the task first (as Dmitry said,
it's not always possible to arrange a clean shutdown).