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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Problem with Delay Alternative in Finalization
Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 16:04:03 +0200
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On Sat, 19 May 2012 07:51:59 -0500, Tim McGuire wrote:

> The code works fine under Solaris with the Rational compiler, so is it
> a GNAT issue? Or should it have not worked to start with?

Raising exceptions from Initialize is a bad idea in any case.

> And why doesn't the program crash on the Program_Error, rather than
> just hang indefinitely?

4.3 is a relatively old compiler which might have problems with tasking. I
remember that adding a delay 0.01 at the beginning of the main program
helped to kick out tasks.

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