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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: How to port exit(s) from C to Ada
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Manuel Collado <m.collado@lml.ls.fi.upm.es> writes:

> To terminate immediately, I can raise a user-defined unhandled
> exception, but it would imply an abnormal termination, so the specified
> exit status would be ingnored.

Catch that exception in the top level procedure, and just exit
normally.

As long as you don't have dependent tasks, that will work.

> Is there a way to reproduce the behaviour of the 'exit(status)'
> C-call in pure Ada, without calling it as a foreign procedure?

There's really nothing wrong with calling 'exit', if that's the
behaviour you actually want.

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-- Stephe