Re: timeouts

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>]

Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au> writes:

> >>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org> writes:
> 
>     Stephen> The 'pragma Debug' was in one of the generic packages, so
>     Stephen> it gets compiled when you instantiate it. Hmm. I just
>     Stephen> grep'ed in
> 
>     Stephen> GNAT-3.15p/lib/gcc-lib/pentium-mingw32msv/2.8.1/adainclude/
> 
>     Stephen> for "pragma Debug", and found 40 hits. But the are all in
>     Stephen> the tasking packages. Have you applied any patches?
> 
> Strange. No I haven't applied any patches. However, this was mingw32
> 3.4.x, what you checked would appear to be GNAT 3.15p? Or am I
> mistaken?

Yes, I checked 3.15p. I thought that's what you were using; my mail
reader wouldn't fetch the original post.

>     Stephen> I realize this isn't going to help you, but this is an
>     Stephen> example of why Windows is known as neither reliable nor
>     Stephen> real-time.
> 
> Yes, no doubt Linux would solve all of these problems, and more...

Hm. In _my_ line of work, Linux is no more realtime than Windows. I
use Lynx, or VxWorks.

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-- Stephe