Re: simple exception-handler

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In article 0@antpc.ant.uni-hannover.de, otte@antpc.ant.uni-hannover.de (Herr Ot
te) writes:
>While I am trying to test my packages and subprograms,
>I want to write an exception-handler, which only puts
>the name of the raised exception to the standard output.
>The first solution, that I found, was :
>
>with Text_IO ;
>procedure Error_IO_Test is
>....
>exception
>  when CONSTRAINT_ERROR => Text_IO.Put_Line ("CONSTRAINT_ERROR");
>  when NUMERIC_ERROR    => Text_IO.Put_Line ("NUMERIC_ERROR");
>  when PROGRAM_ERROR    => Text_IO.Put_Line ("PROGRAM_ERROR");
>  when STORAGE_ERROR    => Text_IO.Put_Line ("STORAGE_ERROR");
>  when TASKING_ERROR    => Text_IO.Put_Line ("TASKING_ERROR");
>end Error_IO_Test;
>
>The number of lines in the exception-handler will increase,
>if I take care not only for the standard exceptions, but for
>the Text_IO exceptions and my own user-defined exceptions.
>For this reason, I prefer a solution like this :
>
>with Text_IO ;
>procedure Error_IO_Test is
>....
>exception
>  when others => Text_IO.Put_Line ( <Name_of_the_Error> );
>end Error_IO_Test;

In Ada 9X Mapping (Version 4.0, Intermetrics, December 91),
you find this definition of exception handlers :

   exception_handler_part ::=
        exception exception_handler {exception_handler}

   exception_handler ::=
        when [choice_parameter:] exception_choice {| exception_choice} =>
              sequence_of_statements

    choice_parameter ::= identifier

and two supplementary functions are provided in SYSTEM:

   function EXCEPTION_NAME (X: EXCEPTION_OCCURRENCE)
        return STRING;
   function EXCEPTION_INFORMATION(X: EXCEPTION_OCCURRENCE)
        return STRING;

So you will be able to write something like this:

exception
   when ANY_EXCEPTION : others =>
         Text_IO.Put_Line( EXCEPTION_NAME(ANY_EXCEPTION));
end Error_IO_Test;

-- or something like this :
--     Text_IO.Put_Line(OUTPUT_FILE, EXCEPTION_NAME(ANY_EXCEPTION)
--          & "  " &  EXCEPTION_INFORMATION(ANY_EXCEPTION));
--      raise;

>Dirk Otte
>Institut fuer Allgemeine Nachrichtentechnik
>Technische Universitaet Hannover
>3000 Hannover 1
>Deutschland


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