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  31
  32 --  This package provides an interface for raising predefined exceptions with
  33 --  an exception message. It can be used from Pure units. This unit is for
  34 --  internal use only, it is not generally available to applications.
  35
  36 pragma Compiler_Unit_Warning;
  37
  38 package System.Pure_Exceptions is
  39    pragma Pure;
  40
  41    type Exception_Type is limited null record;
  42    --  Type used to specify which exception to raise
  43
  44    --  Really Exception_Type is Exception_Id, but Exception_Id can't be
  45    --  used directly since it is declared in the non-pure unit Ada.Exceptions,
  46
  47    --  Exception_Id is in fact simply a pointer to the type Exception_Data
  48    --  declared in System.Standard_Library (which is also non-pure). So what
  49    --  we do is to define it here as a by reference type (any by reference
  50    --  type would do), and then Import the definitions from Standard_Library.
  51    --  Since this is a by reference type, these will be passed by reference,
  52    --  which has the same effect as passing a pointer.
  53
  54    --  This type is not private because keeping it by reference would require
  55    --  defining it in a way (e.g a tagged type) that would drag other run time
  56    --  files, which is unwanted in the case of e.g ravenscar where we want to
  57    --  minimize the number of run time files needed by default.
  58
  59    CE : constant Exception_Type;  -- Constraint_Error
  60    PE : constant Exception_Type;  -- Program_Error
  61    SE : constant Exception_Type;  -- Storage_Error
  62    TE : constant Exception_Type;  -- Tasking_Error
  63    --  One of these constants is used in the call to specify the exception
  64
  65    procedure Raise_Exception (E : Exception_Type; Message : String);
  66    pragma Import (Ada, Raise_Exception, "__gnat_raise_exception");
  67    pragma No_Return (Raise_Exception);
  68    --  Raise specified exception with specified message
  69
  70 private
  71    pragma Import (C, CE, "constraint_error");
  72    pragma Import (C, PE, "program_error");
  73    pragma Import (C, SE, "storage_error");
  74    pragma Import (C, TE, "tasking_error");
  75    --  References to the exception structures in the standard library
  76
  77 end System.Pure_Exceptions;