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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: ISO/IEC 14519 - Ada POSIX binding
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 21:14:12 +0200
Date: 2003-06-21T21:14:12+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vfuzqm4b.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: msIIa.54261$sm5.60390@rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net

tmoran@acm.org writes:

>   I have the paper version of IEEE 1003.5-1992 which specifically has a
> discussion of why that Ada binding to POSIX uses exception handling
> instead of errno.

Even with Ada 83, they should have used an errno-like variable and a
single exception.  (In Ada 95, you can encode the error code in the
exception message.)  The long exception list results in lots of "when
others =>" clauses silently discarding the exception if you want to
have reliable code which runs on real-world systems.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-06-21 19:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-19 21:43 ISO/IEC 14519 - Ada POSIX binding Mark Lorenzen
2003-06-19 21:29 ` tmoran
2003-06-28 23:48   ` Richard Riehle
2003-06-20 11:57 ` Marin David Condic
2003-06-20 14:08   ` Ludovic Brenta
2003-06-20 16:39     ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-06-20 18:33       ` tmoran
2003-06-20 19:09         ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-06-21 19:14         ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2003-06-21 19:42           ` tmoran
2003-06-21 21:04             ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-06-29 15:05             ` Florian Weimer
2003-06-20 19:24       ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-06-20 20:49         ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-06-20 20:49       ` Wesley Groleau
2003-06-20 23:05         ` Mark Lorenzen
2003-06-21  1:49         ` David Emery
2003-06-21 19:19           ` Florian Weimer
2003-06-21 21:47             ` David Emery
2003-06-21 22:22               ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-06-23 16:13               ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-06-23 22:41                 ` Berend de Boer
2003-06-24  9:52                   ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2003-06-24 20:43                     ` Berend de Boer
2003-06-25  9:02                       ` Pascal Obry
2003-06-25  9:46                       ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2003-06-25 21:19                         ` Berend de Boer
2003-06-21 13:01       ` Pascal Obry
2003-06-21 12:11     ` Marin David Condic
2003-06-21 12:44       ` Ludovic Brenta
2003-06-21 13:03         ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-06-21 22:28           ` Ludovic Brenta
2003-06-22  3:45             ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-06-22  8:47               ` Mark Lorenzen
2003-06-23 16:36         ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-06-24 11:46           ` Marin David Condic
2003-06-21 19:09 ` Florian Weimer
2003-06-21 22:38   ` Mark Lorenzen
2003-06-21 22:51     ` Ludovic Brenta
2003-06-23 16:54       ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-06-24 11:49         ` Marin David Condic
2003-06-24 13:31           ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-06-23 16:46     ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-06-23 22:43       ` Berend de Boer
2003-06-29 15:10     ` Florian Weimer
2003-06-29 20:58       ` David Emery
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