Re: ANNOUNCE: Free GNU Ada Run-Time Book (version 1.0)

[javiermirandag@netscape.net]

porton@ex-code.com (Victor Porton) wrote:

>In article <mailman.1040061302.21020.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>,
>    Javier Miranda <javiermirandag@netscape.net> writes:
>> porton@ex-code.com wrote:
>> 
>>>In article <mailman.1040039941.9447.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>,
>>>    Javier Miranda <javiermirandag@netscape.net> writes:
>>>
>>>>Victor Porton wrote:
>>>>    
>>>>
>>>I'm just a user. So will this book benefit me as a GNAT user
>>>except of that I would possibly learn something new about
>>>system programming in general?
>>>  
>>>
>> You will learn why your program run.
>
>We are more interested in the cases why it does not run
>like possible bad interinfluences of Ada tasks and POSIX
>threads...

Victor,

That's is another thing you can read in the book (chapters 2 and 3).
In addition, in chapter 4 you can learn how protected objects are
implemented (with POSIX mutexes), and in chapter 6 you can learn
how the POSIX signals are handled by the Run-Time to implement
the Ada interrupts semantics.

   In general, understanding the underlying technology helps you
writing better programs.

-- Javier Miranda
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