Re: Problems with the "mwindows" switch

["J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Le 03/06/2015 08:42, Simon Wright a écrit :
> NiGHTS <nights@unku.us> writes:
> 
>> Wouldn't it be the Ada way to scream violently before its death
>> instead of quietly accepting its fate? I have a feeling Windows is
>> inherently the problem here.
> 
> I think it's been fixed .. but for a long time GNAT tasks which suffered
> an unhandled exception would die silently, leaving the developer
> mystified.
> 
That's the required behaviour. After all, raising an exception is a good
way to immediately terminate a task, and there is no way to tell whether
it is intended.

What's new is the ability to have "last wishes" procedures, called upon
any task termination (whether normal or abnormal).

But it is certainly good practice to always have a catch-all exception
handler in every task (this can be enforced by AdaControl, of course :-) ).

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