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

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

But thats what Windows *does* when you kill a process. Is that an Ada
problem or a Windows problem? What if the Ada program crashed? Would we say
that the Ada standard should not permit crashes because the effects on the
OS are not portable or may be unreliable? :-) (Boy, we'd really have the
C/C++ guys on the ropes! "Its against the ARM for an Ada program to crash,
so if it does, blame your compiler vendor..." :-)

Sure, maybe Windows is an example of rebootive multitasking, but if someone
develops on top of Windows, its their design choice and they have to live
with the limitations. If Ada had its own flavor of "abort();" under Windows
it would be no more dangerous than C or C++ in that regard.

MDC
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"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> wrote in message
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>
> The other question that comes up with COM objects is whether or not
> the object should be "unreferenced". But if you do allow the unref
> call, then other code may run that may experience "difficulties".
> The UNIX equivalent of a kill -9 in windows would leave many COM
> objects referenced after the processes are gone. Yuk. I smell another
> reboot coming on ;-)
>