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Re: Ada: Text_Io.Get_Immediate() is blocking
- From: Martin Haendler <Extern dot Haendler at kmweg dot de>
- To: "Gerrit @ cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 09:50:42 +0200
- Subject: Re: Ada: Text_Io.Get_Immediate() is blocking
- Organization: Krauss-Maffei Wegmann GmbH & Co. KG
- References: <413DBF55.3050909@kmweg.de> <1055102949.20040907164450@familiehaase.de>
Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
Hallo Martin,
Am Dienstag, 7. September 2004 um 16:01 schriebst du:
Hi,
I'm working with ADA and Windows2000/Cygwin.
A call to Text_Io.Get_Immediate() should return even if there is no
input waiting. I have no problems with Linux, but trying to shift
Software to Windows brings me into trouble: If there is no input
waiting, the call is blocking.
Here is a simple example:
(Save it as "keyboardtest.adb" and call "gnatmake keyboardtest".)
===================================================
with Text_Io;
procedure Keyboardtest is
Char : Character := ' ';
Key_Pressed : Boolean := False;
begin
Text_Io.Get_Immediate(Char, Key_Pressed);
if Key_Pressed then
Text_Io.Put_Line("[" & Char & "]");
end if;
end Keyboardtest;
===================================================
With Linux (gcc version 3.2.3, GNAT Pro 5.02a) this program terminates
immediately which is the correct behaviour. With Win2000/Cygwin it waits
until a key is pressed, prints out the key and then terminates.
"gcc -v" says:
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.1/specs
Configured with: /GCC/gcc-3.3.1-3/configure --with-gcc --with-gnu-ld
--with-gnu-as --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/u
sr --sysconfdir=/etc --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/sbin
--mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info -
-enable-languages=c,ada,c++,f77,pascal,java,objc --enable-libgcj
--enable-threads=posix --with-system-zlib --enab
le-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-interpreter
--enable-sjlj-exceptions --disable-version-specific-runtim
e-libs --enable-shared --disable-win32-registry --enable-java-gc=boehm
--disable-hash-synchronization --verbose -
-target=i686-pc-cygwin --host=i686-pc-cygwin --build=i686-pc-cygwin
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.1 (cygming special)
"gnat" says:
GNAT 3.3.1 (cygming special) Copyright 1996-2002 Free Software
Foundation, Inc.
Do you know any solution or workaround? Thank you!!!
Please upgrade to gcc-3.3.3 or try the test release gcc-3.4
(experimental button in setup.exe installer).
Gerrit
Okay, I updated to gcc-3.3.3 but nothing changed:
Text_Io.Get_Immediate() is still blocking.
I'm a bit stuck as this function is the only way in ADA to get keyboard
input nonblocking.
Thanks for further help!
Martin
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