Re: Isn't this in favour of Ada??

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

Besides, this can only work if you have an operating system. If you 
*are* the operating system, you'd have to do something to bump the 
hardware to make an interrupt happen and this may or may not be possible 
in all cases. This is why I say if Ada had something like a "signal" 
entity that is typically tied to an interrupt, but (since its an Ada 
thing) can be triggered by some Ada mechanism, then you've got the 
problem solved. You could probably "Roll Your Own" - but I'm not sure 
how to do that and still utilize Ada's normal mechanisms for interrupt 
processing.

MDC

Robert A Duff wrote:
> 
> I meant an Ada feature to trigger an interrupt.  Yes, on most systems,
> there's a way to do it.  It would be nice to have a portable Ada name
> for this procedure.
> 
> - Bob

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