Re: Basic critical sections question

["John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>]

In article 
<71385df3-5fec-49b9-9d7a-98cb95a346ed@n20g2000prc.googlegroups.com>,
 usenet@scriptoriumdesigns.com wrote:

> Suppose I have a multi-tasking system where different tasks may 
> execute a sequence like
> 
>   P1(A,B);
>   P2(C,D);
>   P3(E,F);
> 
> and I want to make this sequence a critical section.  What is the 
> typical Ada way to do this?  Would I wrap P1, P2 and P3 in a 
> protected object and call as follows (perhaps creating a record to 
> hold A..F to make things a bit cleaner)?
> 
>   PO.P(A,B,C,D,E,F);
> 
> Or if not that, what?  Thanks.

Looks like what it was designed for. See also,

<http://www.adaic.com/standards/95rat/RAThtml/rat95-p1-2.html#9>
<http://www.adaic.com/standards/05rat/html/Rat-5-3.html>

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