Re: Exception Propagation

[Glen <spam@spam.com>]

dennison@telepath.com wrote:

> In article <b3T63.5112$y6.2934699@WReNphoon3>,
>   cdecker@snet.net (Decker, Christian R) wrote:
> > I have some Ada code that is apparently raising an exception, but the
> > program just seems to hang and does not
> > report the exception as i have seen before.  It looks like the code
> just
> > hangs, but when i put an exception handler
> > around the suspect code the handler gets executed.
>
> That's the behavior I'd expect to see if the exception is occuring in a
> task. The whole program doesn't terminate just because one task dies.

This feature has escaped me, or I have forgot  ( RM95 11.4(4) ), I've
also checked RM83 and found it to be a feature of that language edition.
I would rather the exception was propogated aleast this gives the option
of deciding whether  the program  terminates or not.

Given the RM specification, I think a mandatory "when others" task level
exception handler would be prudent.