From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!newsfeed.xs3.de!io.xs3.de!news.jacob-sparre.dk!franka.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED.rrsoftware.com!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to tell whether program finalization can be suppressed Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 14:18:53 -0600 Organization: JSA Research & Innovation Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 20:18:54 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: franka.jacob-sparre.dk; posting-host="rrsoftware.com:24.196.82.226"; logging-data="32271"; mail-complaints-to="news@jacob-sparre.dk" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.7246 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:49360 Date: 2017-12-04T14:18:53-06:00 List-Id: "Simon Wright" wrote in message news:lylgil9ivj.fsf@pushface.org... ... > In any case, ARM 10.2(25)[1] doesn't appear to say that the main program > shouldn't exit, or that if it does the system should shut down. > > [as a side remark, I take it that 10.2(10)ff are such that the > implementation is expected to behave 'as-if'?] All of the Ada Standard (and any programming language standard, really), is "as-if". The standard has nothing to say (and couldn't really say anything) about the actual code of the program. So long as a program can't tell that the semantics are different than specified, it is OK. Randy.