Re: About task-safeness

["Vinzent Hoefler" <0439279208b62c95f1880bf0f8776eeb@t-domaingrabbing.de>]

mockturtle wrote:

>   * Am I granted (maybe by some obscure paragraph of our beloved RM ;-) that the standard
> packages are task-safe? (I would be surprised if they weren't, but it is nice to be sure...)

Well, ARM 05, A(3/2) says:

|The implementation shall ensure that each language-defined subprogram is reentrant in
|the sense that concurrent calls on the same subprogram perform as specified, so long
|as all parameters that could be passed by reference denote nonoverlapping objects.

Apart from that, you probably have to trust the programmer - or some tool.


Vinzent.

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