Re: Ada exception block does NOT work?

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

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"Bj�rn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil> wrote in message
news:42LMe.31725$d5.185379@newsb.telia.net...
> This is starting to look very much like a Windows-specific bug.

That wouldn't surprise me. Integer divide-by-zero is a hardware trap on the
x86 (unlike overflow and the floating point cases), so its very OS-specific
as to how it is handled. So a bug in the handling on one target is unlikely
to be repeated in other targets - the code is likely to be very different.

In this specific case, Windows presents Integer divide-by-zero as a Windows
exception (which probably isn't the same as an Ada exception). OTOH,
Unix-like systems usually present this as a signal. So the code involved is
going to be different. From the looks of it, there was a problem in
resetting the handler after the first exception was detected. As I recall,
there was something tricky about getting that to work (but I don't remember
the details).

                                   Randy.