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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Delayed deallocation of non-terminated task in Gnat?
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:12:26 -0400
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> Does it mean that Unchecked_Deallocation won't wait for the task to
> terminate? That would be surprising.

U_D does not wait for tasks to terminate.  That's always been
the case.

I consider it a flaw in Ada that there's no general-purpose
way to block waiting for the termination of a task, or a group of
tasks.  I'm not sure U_D should be that feature, though,
because then it would only work for access-to-task(s).

- Bob