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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Isn't this in favour of Ada??
Date: 20 Jul 2005 11:37:33 -0400
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Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:

> Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:
> 
> > I agree with you that it would be nice to have a way to trigger an
> > interrupt under program control.
> 
> _If_ you are running VxWorks on a VME-based system, you can call
> sysBusIntGen().

I meant an Ada feature to trigger an interrupt.  Yes, on most systems,
there's a way to do it.  It would be nice to have a portable Ada name
for this procedure.

- Bob