Re: Is Text_IO.Put_Line() thread-safe?

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

"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message 
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> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
>
>> It would be nice if the exception would propagate in the task's master, 
>> but
>> that is impossible without a rendezvous or asynchronous control transfer 
>> on
>> the master's side.
>
> Probably the best default behavior would be to stop the program
> with an error message, just like what happens for an unhandled
> exception in the main program.  If you don't like that, you would
> program something else.

Wouldn't that be really expensive on a multicore processor (or, in Ada 83 
think, a multiprocessor)? Maybe it could be defined in terms of "abort", but 
that seems like a heavy mechanism.

> But as a default behavior, silently dropping exceptions on the
> floor is a wrong language design.

I agree. The problem is everything else is worse in some way. ;-)

                                    Randy.