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From: Kieran Mckey <kieran.mckey@baesystems.com>
Subject: Re: Customer balks at Ada -- any hope?--Warning Significant Thread Drift  Ahead
Date: 2000/07/20
Date: 2000-07-20T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3976C1D0.5A3CECEB@baesystems.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8l5lhf$nem$1@pyrite.mv.net



Jeff Creem wrote:
> 
> "Kieran Mckey" <kieran.mckey@baesystems.com> wrote in message
> 
> > enabled or not. Furthermore, run-time checks are required for exception
> > handling which can provide valuable diagnostic data. IMO too many
> 
> Apart from everything else you said, the above statement is not exactly
> correct. You can suppress checks and still get exception handling for
> explicitly raised exceptions

Agreed.

> as well as those exceptions which are "free".

By "free" I assume you mean processor exceptions, e.g. divide by zero,
which are not the same as Ada exceptions.

> Granted the meaning of the latter is compiler and target specific but there
> is a big difference between suppressing automatic run time checks and loosing
> exception handling all together...

Ok, a quick reword gives : 

run-time checks are required for Ada exception handling, excluding
explicitly raised exceptions.

Kieran Mckey




  reply	other threads:[~2000-07-20  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-07-17  0:00 Customer balks at Ada -- any hope? mjsilva
2000-07-17  0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-18  0:00   ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-07-18  0:00     ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-18  0:00       ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18  0:00         ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18  0:00         ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-18  0:00           ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18  0:00             ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-19  0:00             ` David Starner
2000-07-19  0:00         ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-19  0:00           ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-19  0:00             ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-20  0:00               ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-07-21  0:00                 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-17  0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-07-18  0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-07-18  0:00   ` mjsilva
2000-07-18  0:00     ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18  0:00       ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18  0:00       ` nabbasi
2000-07-19  0:00         ` Pascal Obry
2000-07-19  0:00           ` Florian Weimer
2000-07-28  0:00             ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-07-28  0:00               ` Philip Anderson
2000-07-28  0:00                 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-31  0:00               ` Harry Erwin
2000-07-31  0:00                 ` Ted Dennison
2000-07-19  0:00         ` Rennie Allen
2000-07-19  0:00           ` nabbasi
2000-07-18  0:00   ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-07-18  0:00     ` Rennie Allen
2000-07-18  0:00       ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-07-20  0:00         ` Joseph C Williams
2000-07-21  0:00           ` Ted Dennison
2000-07-18  0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-07-18  0:00   ` mjsilva
2000-07-18  0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-18  0:00   ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-18  0:00   ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18  0:00 ` wv12
2000-07-18  0:00   ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-19  0:00     ` Kieran Mckey
2000-07-19  0:00       ` fdebruin
2000-07-19  0:00         ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-19  0:00           ` Kieran Mckey
2000-07-19  0:00       ` Customer balks at Ada -- any hope?--Warning Significant Thread Drift Ahead Jeff Creem
2000-07-20  0:00         ` Kieran Mckey [this message]
2000-07-28  0:00           ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-07-18  0:00   ` Customer balks at Ada -- any hope? Scott Ingram`
2000-07-26  0:00     ` Dale Pontius
2000-07-26  0:00       ` Scott Ingram
2000-07-26  0:00         ` Florian Weimer
2000-07-27  0:00           ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-26  0:00         ` Pat Rogers
2000-07-19  0:00   ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-19  0:00   ` mjsilva
2000-07-24  0:00 ` Richard Riehle
2000-07-25  0:00   ` mjsilva
2000-07-25  0:00     ` Gary Scott
2000-07-25  0:00     ` gdemont
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