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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: dynamic multithreading
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tmoran@acm.org writes:

>   Some systems I've used still have a memory leak when a task is
> deallocated.  (Task Control Block?)

An Ada run-time system that leaks memory (out of control of the Ada
programmer) has a bug.  Don't just meekly avoid using heap-allocated
tasks -- report the bug to your vendor!

- Bob