From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com>
Subject: Re: Parameter return when exceptions occur
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:20:22 +0100
Date: 2004-10-29T09:20:22+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4181fbd4$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Goigd.324035$MQ5.102523@attbi_s52
Steve wrote:
> The "variable lenght strings thread" has touched on the case of using
> Ada.Text_Io.Get_Line with a string on the last line of a file that
> does not contain a file terminator. In this case an End_Error
> exception is raised.
>
> Question: when the End_Error exception occurs, is anything known
> about the value of the parameters to Get_Line? Does the procedure
> still return meaningful values?
>
> I suspect it is compiler dependent, since I didn't manage to find any
> explanation in the LRM.
If a subprogram raises an exception you can assume /nothing/ about
the contents of the returning values.
Cheers
-- Martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-29 8:20 UTC|newest]
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2004-10-29 3:02 Parameter return when exceptions occur Steve
2004-10-29 8:20 ` Martin Dowie [this message]
2004-10-31 14:47 ` Matthew Heaney
2004-11-01 1:19 ` Steve
2004-11-01 4:11 ` Jeffrey Carter
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2004-10-29 8:41 Christoph Karl Walter Grein
2004-10-29 8:59 ` Martin Dowie
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