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From: "Dale Pennington" <Dale.K.Pennington@boeing.com>
Subject: Catching Ada exceptions in C on an SGI
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Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:19:12 GMT
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Situation is as follows : A third party is supplying us a library in Ada
with C entry (i.e. pragma export). The library is build with GNAT 3.13a on
SGI Irix 6.5. Unfortunately, while they supply C entries, these entries do
not trap any Ada exceptions raised, so if an exception occurs, our program
(written in C) crashes. It is not feasible to detect the conditions that
would raise an exception before the Ada calls, and we are not sure how long
it will take the third party to fix thing (or even if they will).

In the interim, we would like to somehow catch the Ada exceptions in out C
code. I was wondering if anyone had done work before on this problem, or had
good pointer on where I could look.

Thanks for your time,

Dale Pennington