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"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).