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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Access procedure to pointer
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 14:30:15 -0400
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"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org> writes:

> Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote:
>>
>> Well, it is documented in the reference manual, and a quick search for
>> the word "interrupt" in the index would have put you right there...
>> However, I think this is an interesting example. I guess the OP simply
>> thought "oh, I must handle interrupts, therefore I must interface with
>> the system - i.e. use C)", he didn't even imagine that it was provided
>> out of the box...
>
> I suspect the OP wasn't looking for "interrupt"; he was looking for
> "signal". What a signal is, and whether it's the same as an interrupt,
> is highly platform-
> and compiler-dependent. About all you can say is an interrupt handler
> works for GNAT/Linux.

And "signal" appears in the index, too (it says "see interrupt C.3(1)"
among other things).  When I made that index, I tried to think of every
synonym of every term somebody might want to look up.

You shouldn't have to know Ada terminology by heart in order to find
things in the Ada manual!

- Bob