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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Use of entries using Ravenscar
Date: 28 Dec 2001 18:36:54 +0000
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"Jimmy Dub�n" <duben@fatburen.org> writes:

> OK, but signal 10 is reserved if you use rts-native instead of
> rts-fsu, we have used the latter one since we think it has better
> handling for threads.  One has to change the soft link between the
> two libraries to use rts-fsu.

The most common reason I have for using tasks is to handle
asynchronous (usually socket) I/O, and it's really useful to be able
to have one task block on a read() while the rest of the program
carries on. So FSU threads are not practical (for us).

I have no idea whether GNAT supports FSU threads *and* Ravenscar --
anyone else?