Re: Exceptions in Declarative Region

[news.crd.ge.com!e7sa!groleau@uunet.uu.net (Wes Groleau x1240 C73-8)]

In article <1993Aug13.024920.22726@scf.loral.com> bashford@srs.loral.com (Dave 
Bashford) writes:
>If an exception occurs in the elaboration of a global package or the 
>declaritive part of a main subprogram, there doesn't appear to be any
>way for the program to catch the exception and the user will get the
>cryptic and probably useless error message generated by the Ada runtime
>kernal. Is this true or am I missing something ?

It's true.  However, if that is unacceptable, and if your interactive debugger
doesn't help, try this:

with MAIN_PROGRAM;
procedure EXCEPTION_HANDLER is
  -- nothing here to raise an exception...
begin
   MAIN_PROGRAM;
exception
   when -- you fill in the rest
end EXCEPTION_HANDLER;