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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: dynamic multithreading
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"AG" <ang@xtra.co.nz> writes:

> I'd disagree. It is much easier to design a system which
> always starts from scratch. There is also a lot less potential
> for errors since you don't need to keep or handle previous
> states. So how can it be less robust? (Unless, as stated above,
> you simply don't trust your run-time system to even de-allocate
> the stack)

With GNAT it seems to be the task control block that doesn't get
deallocated.