Re: Exceptions in Declarative Region

[seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman@uunet.uu.net (Michael Feldman)]

In article <1993Aug13.024920.22726@scf.loral.com> bashford@srs.loral.com (Dave 
Bashford) writes:

[deletia]
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>Perhaps I wasn't clear. My question was:
>
>If an exception occurs in the elaboration of a global package or the 
>declaritive part of a main subprogram, there doesn't appear to be any
>way for the program to catch the exception and the user will get the
>cryptic and probably useless error message generated by the Ada runtime
>kernal. Is this true or am I missing something ?

Yes, it's true. No, you're not missing anything. See a couple of others
posts of mine this evening, in which I try to explain why it's so and 
couldn't be otherwise.

Mike Feldman
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