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Subject: Re: How to get nice with GNAT?
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On 2014-11-22 23:44, brbarkstrom@gmail.com wrote:

> 
> One possibility is to get in the habit of putting exception handling
> messages in every procedure interface, as in
> 
> procedure DoSomething(stuff;
>                       OK      :    out Boolean;
>                       Err_Msg :    out Bounded_String);
> 
> if DoSomething throws an exception, the calling program can detect
> that OK is false and receive a message identifying the cause.

To me, it sounds like c-programming.
Check the result after each call, because of the
lack of exceptions.

But this is Ada where exceptions should be
dealt with as is. Much easier to read,
better program flow.

And the OP did not want to get rid of exceptions,
just get reasonable crash-dumps.


--
Björn