From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,8da181ade72859cf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: timeouts References: <2jVUc.13319$Fg5.12445@attbi_s53> <%H0Wc.299737$%_6.62464@attbi_s01> From: Brian May Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 08:20:33 +1000 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jBE6xl+j5dbZHSX/75OnMR0tml4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl-202-173-153-89.vic.westnet.com.au X-Trace: news.melbourne.pipenetworks.com 1093558832 202.173.153.89 (27 Aug 2004 08:20:32 +1000) X-Complaints-To: abuse@pipenetworks.com X-Abuse-Info: Please forward all headers to enable your complaint to be properly processed. Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mel.connect.com.au!duster.adelaide.on.net!news.melbourne.pipenetworks.com!not-for-mail Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3056 Date: 2004-08-27T08:20:33+10:00 List-Id: >>>>> "Pascal" == Pascal Obry writes: Pascal> Yes using the MingW compiler and not the one provided with Pascal> Cygwin. cygwin calls their compiler mingw, so I would have assumed that they are the same. Is this assumption incorrect? Pascal> Well, the GNAT Cygwin port is recent and does not support Pascal> tasking AFAIK. The MingW compiler should be more Pascal> stable. If this is not the case why not use GNAT 3.15p Pascal> which is (for a long time now) working fine for many Pascal> projects. Are we going around in circles here? It is Gnat 3.15p that I am currently using and relying on, and this is the compiler which (according to others) has known bugs in timer code under Windows (unfortunately I can't use Unix/Linux, but that would be my ideal solution). Sorry if I misunderstood you. -- Brian May