Exception handler question

[tim@trident.datasys.swri.edu (Timothy J. Barton)]

Please help me in my ignorance of Ada exception handlers.  I am using Sun
Ada and am trying to trap the usage of an out of range value being passed
to another program unit.  I have an exception handler with
"when CONSTRAINT_ERROR" and "when others", but the exception handler is not
getting called.  When I run the program in the Sun Ada debugger, I get the
message:

  "Illegal instruction" [4] Software trap: range check

Program execution is halted, I can't single step any further.  In other
cases where I trap an exception, a single step would take me to the
exception hanlder source lines.  If I run the program outside the debugger,
very bad things happen (and happen so fast I can't read the message which
flashes by) and then my program and xterm go away.

Program looks like the following:
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  subtype COLUMN is INTEGER range 0..100;

  procedure example is
  begin
    OtherFunction(  COLUMN(101) );   -- CONSTRAINT error here!
  exception
    when CONSTRAINT_ERROR => do something
    when others           => do something
  end example;

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What am I doing wrong?  Why doesn't my exception handler get called?  Any
help would be greatly appreciated.

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