Tue, 4 Sep 2001 01:58:44 -0400
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Hi teamers
I am working on a class assignment project for which I require a stream of
random characters. To circumvent the problem of identical lists from
Ada.Discrete_Random I devised a task which continually updates seed numbers.
Because the task is CPU hungry (and my machine is one of Noah's cast-offs) I
wish to be able to turn it off and on at will, do it it instantiated by
assignment to an access type thus:
Seeder := new Seed_Generator(Seed);
This works fine but I also need to be able to stop it and I try this
...
or
accept Stop;
exit <Working_Loop>;
or
...
which should IMH(if misguided)O give normal termination to the task at its
current status. At that time I deallocate the access type in preparation
for a re-start. However, it persists in raising CONSTRAINT_ERROR at the
call to 'Stop'. In the meantime I have trapped this exception at the
calling point so things do work okay, but this is a dirty trick and there
must be a cleaner way. My much-thumbed copy of the LRM remains unhelpful.
Can anyone help?
Thanks
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