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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: How do I end the program?
Date: 05 Feb 2002 06:17:01 +0000
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dale <dale@cs.rmit.edu.au> writes:

> starner@okstate.edu wrote:
> 
> > How do I exit the program? It may seem like a silly question, but I'm
> > trying to exit from a function called from a callback written in C, so I
> > can't just return or raise an exception. glutMainLoop never returns, so
> > I can't run off the end of the main function. I used
> > GNAT.OS_Lib.OS_Exit. Is there a pure Ada alternative?
> 
> 
> No not really. One way of doing it is to define an exception...

There has been at least one thread on this on cla; it's particularly
interesting when you have tasks you don't know about. The general idea
is to abort the environment task.