Re: stupid question: how can I finish a program?

["Marin D. Condic" <not.valid@acm.org>]

This is a question that seems to come up fairly regularly: "Is there a
standard way of forcing an Ada program to terminate?" Since the current
answer is "No", but the question keeps coming up, it would seem like proper
fodder for an Ada 0x. It shouldn't be hard to incorporate something into the
language as either a standard procedure or even some kind of use of existing
keywords. I can't imagine it being difficult to implement since most OS's
that support processes have some facility for killing a process and on an
embedded machine without an OS, it hardly matters what you do (infinite
loop?). There might be issues if you wanted an *orderly* shutdown, but I
don't see that being the place to use some flavor of a "terminate all;"
statement. (How can the compiler decide what is "orderly" and how can it
tell that in the process of being "orderly" the program doesn't run off to
Flanders and never return? Better to leave that in the hands of the
programmer.)

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"Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1029282843.28085.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org...
> From: Bob Leif
> To: Chris Dank et al.
> Since it is quite common to terminate a commercial program after an
> exception is raised, it would be quite useful if Ada 200? would include
> a standard procedure for this.
>