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

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

Not really. It works for single threaded programs, but not for multi
threaded programs. Try it with tasks. Try having one task determine that the
whole program should shut down. There is no "shoot this process in the head
right this instant and I really mean it!" instruction in Ada. Not a
"standard" one, at least. Not one that will work with all possible Ada
programs.

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"Wes Groleau" <wesgroleau@despammed.com> wrote in message
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>
> This has been in Ada all along.
>
> If there is no exception handler, the program terminates.
>
> If the only exception handler is at the top level,
> the program terminates after executing the handler.
>
> If there is a lower-level exception handler, you convert
> to one of the above situations by adding "raise;"
> to the handler.
>
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> Wes Groleau
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