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From: Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: task activation
Date: 1999/12/03
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Ehud Lamm <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il> writes:

> On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Robert A Duff wrote:
> 
> |Another way to control the timing of activation is to put the task in
> |the heap -- then, an allocator causes the activation, and you can put
> |that allocator whereever you like.
> 
> Just a reminder, that though sometimes useful, this is discouraged by the
> style guide.

As Robert Dewar has mentioned a few times recently, library level
tasks can give you real headaches at elaboration time, at any rate if
you use GNAT's default elaboration scheme. The style guide may need a
bit of a rethink in this area (at least to lay out the problems and
options).

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