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Re: Anarchic protocol ANY (occam2)

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From: Bryan Carpenter
Date: Mon, 20 May 1991 10:08
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In <LLW.91May17095750@corwin.eng.yale.edu> llw@ghostwheel.eng.yale.edu (Louis L. Whitcomb) writes:
>...

>The moral of the story: If you use OCCAM2, use explicit protocols -
>even though they are cumbersome and restrictive.  It is hard to track
>down bugs without them.

>Note that ihe implementation of channel communication in the newly
>released INMOS ANSI C compiler does *not* suffer from this curious
>design flaw.

I haven't looked at inmos C very closely.  How do they get round the 
"design flaw" (if that's what it is)?

Bryan
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From: dbc@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bryan Carpenter)
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Subject: Re: Anarchic protocol ANY (occam2)
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Date: 20 May 91 10:08:15 GMT
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