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authorArnaud Charlet <charlet@adacore.com>2020-08-28 04:46:52 -0400
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[Ada] Improve documentation of pragma Abort_Defer
gcc/ada/ * doc/gnat_rm/implementation_defined_pragmas.rst: Improve documentation of pragma Abort_Defer. * gnat_rm.texi: Regenerate.
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@@ -37,7 +37,21 @@ This pragma must appear at the start of the statement sequence of a
handled sequence of statements (right after the ``begin``). It has
the effect of deferring aborts for the sequence of statements (but not
for the declarations or handlers, if any, associated with this statement
-sequence).
+sequence). This can also be useful for adding a polling point in Ada code,
+where asynchronous abort of tasks is checked when leaving the statement
+sequence, and is lighter than, for example, using ``delay 0.0;``, since with
+zero-cost exception handling, propagating exceptions (implicitly used to
+implement task abort) cannot be done reliably in an asynchronous way.
+
+An example of usage would be:
+
+.. code-block:: ada
+
+ -- Add a polling point to check for task aborts
+
+ begin
+ pragma Abort_Defer;
+ end;
.. _Pragma-Abstract_State: