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   3 --                         GNAT RUN-TIME COMPONENTS                         --
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  31
  32 --  This package provides an interface for raising predefined exceptions
  33 --  with an exception message. It can be used from Pure units.
  34
  35 --  There is no prohibition in Ada that prevents exceptions being raised
  36 --  from within pure units. The raise statement is perfectly acceptable.
  37
  38 --  However, it is not normally possible to raise an exception with a
  39 --  message because the routine Ada.Exceptions.Raise_Exception is not in
  40 --  a Pure unit. This is an annoying and unnecessary restriction and this
  41 --  package allows for raising the standard predefined exceptions at least.
  42
  43 package GNAT.Exceptions is
  44    pragma Pure;
  45
  46    type Exception_Type is limited null record;
  47    --  Type used to specify which exception to raise
  48
  49    --  Really Exception_Type is Exception_Id, but Exception_Id can't be
  50    --  used directly since it is declared in the non-pure unit Ada.Exceptions,
  51
  52    --  Exception_Id is in fact simply a pointer to the type Exception_Data
  53    --  declared in System.Standard_Library (which is also non-pure). So what
  54    --  we do is to define it here as a by reference type (any by reference
  55    --  type would do), and then Import the definitions from Standard_Library.
  56    --  Since this is a by reference type, these will be passed by reference,
  57    --  which has the same effect as passing a pointer.
  58
  59    --  This type is not private because keeping it by reference would require
  60    --  defining it in a way (e.g a tagged type) that would drag other run time
  61    --  files, which is unwanted in the case of e.g ravenscar where we want to
  62    --  minimize the number of run time files needed by default.
  63
  64    CE : constant Exception_Type;  -- Constraint_Error
  65    PE : constant Exception_Type;  -- Program_Error
  66    SE : constant Exception_Type;  -- Storage_Error
  67    TE : constant Exception_Type;  -- Tasking_Error
  68    --  One of these constants is used in the call to specify the exception
  69
  70    procedure Raise_Exception (E : Exception_Type; Message : String);
  71    pragma Import (Ada, Raise_Exception, "__gnat_raise_exception");
  72    pragma No_Return (Raise_Exception);
  73    --  Raise specified exception with specified message
  74
  75 private
  76    pragma Import (C, CE, "constraint_error");
  77    pragma Import (C, PE, "program_error");
  78    pragma Import (C, SE, "storage_error");
  79    pragma Import (C, TE, "tasking_error");
  80    --  References to the exception structures in the standard library
  81
  82 end GNAT.Exceptions;