Re: Finalization of static package variables

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

"Adam Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com> wrote in message
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> So, to go back to a point I briefly mentioned in my previous post:
> does Ada need a feature that would allow you to call your own
> finalization procedure or something when the environment task is
> completing, so that you don't have to do this using trickery?

No, because your proposed "fix" is more complex than the trick, which is
simply to use Ada.Task_Identification:

-- In a library package:
with Ada.Task_Identification; use Ada.Task_Identification;

Env_Task_Id : constant Task_Id := Current_Task;

Now, in any task that you want to take special action if the main subprogram
has exited:

     if Is_Completed (Env_Task_Id) then

Originally, when I dreamt this up for Claw, no compilers actually
implemented it. Indeed, I asked the question to the ARG, which became
AI-206. When that was resolved, ACATS test CXC7004 was added to test it, so
it is likely that all current compilers support doing this. (Surely all of
the Windows ones do, we sent bug reports to all of them...)

So there is no need for something fancier, the capability already exists.

                            Randy.