From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: Handling signals in ADA
Date: 16 Mar 2001 22:06:17 +0100
Date: 2001-03-16T22:06:17+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87u24t4e5y.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: YZds6.3394$25.1574196@newsrump.sjc.telocity.net
"David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> writes:
> > The standard Ada library does not support signals. Typical Ada
> > programs use other communication mechanisms, and a verbatim
> > translation is not possible. If you need signal handling because it's
> > required by your environment, have a look at POSIX.5.
>
> This answer is just plain wrong. The following program demonstrates
> the use of signals in Ada, using only language-defined units.
There is no requirement in the standard that Ada interrupts are
mapped to C signals. I believe that there are quite a number of
implementations where no such correspondence exists (it would make
sense for a DOS implementation, for example).
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-13 11:09 Handling signals in ADA Tomas Hlavaty
2001-03-15 5:21 ` DuckE
2001-03-15 18:48 ` David Starner
2001-03-16 17:17 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-15 22:05 ` Florian Weimer
2001-03-15 23:42 ` Ed Falis
2001-03-16 1:27 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2001-03-16 1:48 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-03-16 21:06 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2001-03-17 1:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2001-03-16 3:06 ` (null)
2001-03-16 13:10 ` Tomas Hlavaty
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