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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Forcing Exception Handling
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On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 01:34:02 -0800 (PST), iloAda wrote:

> Mmmmmm...That's what I was fearing!!
> Actually the idea behind my question was that I'm working on a real
> time system, and as u know, we can't afford to a let a real time
> system crash because of an unhandled exception.

So long it crashes in real time everything is OK! (:-)) You meant rather
mission-critical system, I guess.

> Since I use some other
> libraries in my system (that weren't written by myself or anybody else
> I know) that will raise exceptions, I wanted to be forced to handle
> them.

You should use some static analysis tool for that. E.g. SPARK.

> exception
>  When others =>
>      --  Do something that will allow the system to keep on running

That is of course meaningless, because you don't know WHAT happened in
order to determine the SOMETHING to be done.

> have u guys done something like that before?

No, because see above. The most close thing is:

  when Error : others =>
      Trace ("Fatal:" & Ada.Exceptions.Exception_Information (Error));
+/-  raise;

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de