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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: GNAT verses A# for soft-realtime system
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:52:48 -0400
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"Jeffrey R. Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org> writes:

> Chip and Allie Orange wrote:
>> Do the additional features of 2005 target real-time systems?
>
> Some do; some don't. In the former category, there are task-termination
> handlers, interfaces that must be implemented by tasks or protected
> objects, and timing events and handlers, among others.

I'd say that some Ada 2005 features are specifically for real-time
systems, and most of the rest are generally applicable (i.e. useful for
both real-time and not-real-time).

- Bob