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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Handling signals in ADA
Date: 16 Mar 2001 22:06:17 +0100
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"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).