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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 14:26:50 +0200
From: Arnaud Charlet <charlet@gnat.com>
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> I could probably go search through the Win32api and find a "Kill this 
> process and I really, really mean it" system call, but a) it would be 

If that's what you're looking for (and it seems indeed pretty clear from
your previous messages), then I'd suggest you ignore the other messages on
this thread, and you do the same as with any other programming language:

procedure Halt;
pragma Import (C, Halt, "exit");

...
Halt;

and be done with it.

Starting to discuss about task abortion, synchronization, etc... when all
you need is a brutal program shutdown is not very productive, in
particlar since this issue comes up regularly on this newsgroup, with
almost always the same answers, which make Ada look like a beautiful but
useless language :-)

Arno