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3 -- GNU ADA RUN-TIME LIBRARY (GNARL) COMPONENTS --
5 -- S Y S T E M . O S _ P R I M I T I V E S --
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36 -- This package provides low level primitives used to implement clock and
37 -- delays in non tasking applications on Alpha/VMS
39 -- The choice of the real clock/delay implementation (depending on whether
40 -- tasking is involved or not) is done via soft links (see s-tasoli.ads)
42 -- NEVER add any dependency to tasking packages here
44 package System
.OS_Primitives
is
46 subtype OS_Time
is Long_Integer;
47 -- System time on VMS is used for performance reasons.
48 -- Note that OS_Time is *not* the same as Ada.Calendar.Time, the
49 -- difference being that relative OS_Time is negative, but relative
50 -- Calendar.Time is positive.
51 -- See Ada.Calendar.Delays for more information on VMS Time.
53 Max_Sensible_Delay
: constant Duration := 183 * 24 * 60 * 60.0;
54 -- Max of half a year delay, needed to prevent exceptions for large
55 -- delay values. It seems unlikely that any test will notice this
56 -- restriction, except in the case of applications setting the clock at
57 -- at run time (see s-tastim.adb). Also note that a larger value might
58 -- cause problems (e.g overflow, or more likely OS limitation in the
61 function OS_Clock
return OS_Time
;
62 -- Returns "absolute" time, represented as an offset
63 -- relative to "the Epoch", which is Nov 17, 1858 on VMS.
65 function Clock
return Duration;
66 pragma Inline
(Clock
);
67 -- Returns "absolute" time, represented as an offset
68 -- relative to "the Epoch", which is Jan 1, 1970 on unixes.
69 -- This implementation is affected by system's clock changes.
71 function Monotonic_Clock
return Duration;
72 pragma Inline
(Monotonic_Clock
);
73 -- Returns "absolute" time, represented as an offset
74 -- relative to "the Epoch", which is Jan 1, 1970.
75 -- This clock implementation is immune to the system's clock changes.
77 Relative
: constant := 0;
78 Absolute_Calendar
: constant := 1;
79 Absolute_RT
: constant := 2;
80 -- Values for Mode call below. Note that the compiler (exp_ch9.adb)
81 -- relies on these values. So any change here must be reflected in
82 -- corresponding changes in the compiler.
84 procedure Timed_Delay
(Time
: Duration; Mode
: Integer);
85 -- Implements the semantics of the delay statement when no tasking is
86 -- used in the application.
88 -- Mode is one of the three values above
90 -- Time is a relative or absolute duration value, depending on Mode.
92 -- Note that currently Ada.Real_Time always uses the tasking run time, so
93 -- this procedure should never be called with Mode set to Absolute_RT.
94 -- This may change in future or bare board implementations.
96 function To_Duration
(T
: OS_Time
; Mode
: Integer) return Duration;
97 -- Convert VMS system time to Duration
98 -- Mode is one of the three values above
100 function To_OS_Time
(D
: Duration; Mode
: Integer) return OS_Time
;
101 -- Convert Duration to VMS system time
102 -- Mode is one of the three values above
104 end System
.OS_Primitives
;