Re: Ada and embedded applications

["Marc A. Criley" <mcqada@earthlink.net>]

Ehud Lamm wrote:
> 
> Larry Kilgallen <Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam> wrote in message
> > Efficiency of exception handling obviously varies among implementations,
> > but I worry about any design that is going to encounter so many exceptions
> > that their performance becomes relevant.
> 
> Perhaps one should note that there can be implementations in which exception
> handling support causes overhead even for programs and routines that don't
> raise or handle exceptions.
> 

I know ACT was touting "zero-cost exception" technology for some GNAT
platforms a year or so ago, which was intended to alleviate exactly this
concern.  (Without Dewar being here, nor being a supported customer, I
don't get much ACT press info any more :-(

Marc A. Criley
Senior Staff Engineer
Quadrus Corporation
www.quadruscorp.com