RE: terminate applications

["rleif" <rleif@cox.net>]

This belongs in the Ada.POSIX package or a child package thereof. It should
not be part of the Ada ISO Standard; but should be in standard. Do we have a
mechanism for the compiler vendors or some SIGAda group to establish a
standard (collection of package specifications and requirements)?

Nick Roberts wrote "I think it might be valuable to add to the standard
library a procedure,

perhaps:

   procedure Ada.Unsafe_Terminate_Program;"

I believe that he has provided a good starting place.
Bob Leif 

My E-mail still goes to rleif@rleif.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Marin David Condic [mailto:nobody@noplace.com] 
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 6:16 AM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: Re: terminate applications

The critical point being that if you *don't* give the programmer the 
choice, he'll just do an end-run around you anyway and resent the fact 
that he has to go outside the language to get what he wants.

It's an OS operation and the programmer ought to be able to access the 
OS in a portable way - to whatever extent that is possible. It doesn't 
have to be part of the Ada standard if the Ada community can agree on 
building a conventional library that will be included in most/all compilers.

MDC


Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
> 
> Give the programmer a choice. Document it as dangerous or
> unsupported, but give the programmer the choice. Management can
> dictate it out of a project if it needs to.
> 


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