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diff --git a/gcc/ada/doc/gnat_rm/implementation_defined_pragmas.rst b/gcc/ada/doc/gnat_rm/implementation_defined_pragmas.rst index af313c1..a5aff66 100644 --- a/gcc/ada/doc/gnat_rm/implementation_defined_pragmas.rst +++ b/gcc/ada/doc/gnat_rm/implementation_defined_pragmas.rst @@ -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: |