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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>
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Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au> writes:

> >>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org> writes:
> 
>     Stephen> I had a similar problem, and tracked it down to a "pragma
>     Stephen> Debug" in the GNAT sources for Ada.Text_IO. Try compiling
>     Stephen> without -gnata. Mine went away with the next release of
>     Stephen> GNAT (5.02a1).
> 
> Hmmm... Interesting... That is probably my problem. Yes, I am
> compiling with -gnata, too.

The 'pragma Debug' was in one of the generic packages, so it gets
compiled when you instantiate it. Hmm. I just grep'ed in 

GNAT-3.15p/lib/gcc-lib/pentium-mingw32msv/2.8.1/adainclude/

for "pragma Debug", and found 40 hits. But the are all in the tasking
packages. Have you applied any patches?

> <delete summary of Win32 issues>

I realize this isn't going to help you, but this is an example of why
Windows is known as neither reliable nor real-time.

-- 
-- Stephe