Re: task synchronization and activation

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

"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message
news:wcchdk54lxu.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com...
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> For another thing, what about exceptions in the exception handler part
> of a task?  Those can't be handled by the task either, so they get
> dropped on the floor -- nobody gets notified.  And in this case,
> there is no 100% reliable workaround -- you can wrap that handler
> in another block statement with another handler, but then what about
> the 'nother handler?  There's an infinite regress.  You could carefully
> inspect the outermost handler of a task, and make sure it doesn't have
> any bugs (good idea!) -- but it could still get Storage_Error.

In Ada 2005, you can use a task termination handler to detect this. But that
too isn't perfect, because it can't guarantee to work in the face of a
Storage_Error (nothing can, really, and that is the most common problem in
my experience).

                   Randy.