Re: Access procedure to pointer

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On May 28, 8:26 am, Jean-Pierre Rosen <ro...@adalog.fr> wrote:
> Sébastien a écrit :>> Why don't you simply use Ada.Interrupts?
>
> > Two reasons:
> > 1) It didn't know it exists
> > 2) It's not documented, and not intuitive, no example nothing to start.
>
> > As a matter of fact, the first problem is solved ;-), if you any help
> > about the second problem, I'll be happy to use standard package instead
> > of mine.
>
> Well, it is documented in the reference manual, and a quick search for
> the word "interrupt" in the index would have put you right there...

Right, but the reference manual doesn't say that "interrupts" are
"Unix signals", even on a Unix-like system, which is to be expected,
since this is a highly implementation-dependent matter and the RM
can't be expected to speak on what "interrupts" mean in a particular
implementation.  So the RM can't be expected to help solve Sebastien's
problem at all.  I'd think that GNAT documentation *would* give an
answer to this, but a quick search of the GNAT documentation that I
found on AdaCore's site didn't say anything about what the
"interrupts" in Ada.Interrupts refer to.  I may not have been looking
in the right place, though.  I did find the .ads file that defines the
Ada.Interrupts.Names spec in GNAT's runtime, and that did make it
clear that "interrupts" are Unix (or Linux or something) signals.

                                 -- Adam