From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Are there any automatic tools to convert ada83 source into ada95?
Date: 1998/12/29
Date: 1998-12-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <769fl1$mcr$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87vhiv3m7j.fsf@mihalis.ix.netcom.com
In article <87vhiv3m7j.fsf@mihalis.ix.netcom.com>,
Chris Morgan <mihalis@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> The only systematic problem was that our
> exception handlers were standardised with
>
> ...
> when CONSTRAINT_ERROR =>
> DO_SOMETHING;
> when NUMERIC_ERROR =>
> DP_SOMETHING_ELSE;
> ...
>
> which is no longer legal.
To be clear on this point, this was highly dubious code
in Ada 83, since Ada 83 compilers were allowed to raise
Constraint_Error instead of Numeric_Error in any situation.
So the above code was dubious, implementation-dependent
Ada 83 code in any case.
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1998-12-28 0:00 Are there any automatic tools to convert ada83 source into ada95? changweimin
1998-12-28 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-12-28 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-12-29 0:00 ` robert_dewar [this message]
1998-12-29 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-12-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1998-12-31 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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1998-12-28 0:00 changweimin
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