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+@c
+@c  COPYRIGHT (c) 1988-2002.
+@c  On-Line Applications Research Corporation (OAR).
+@c  All rights reserved.
+@c
+@c  $Id$
+@c
+
+@chapter Ada95 Interrupt Support
+
+@section Introduction
+
+This chapter describes what is required to enable Ada interrupt
+and error exception handling when using GNAT over RTEMS.
+
+The GNAT Ada95 interrupt support RTEMS was developed by 
+Jiri Gaisler <jgais@@ws.estec.esa.nl> who also wrote this
+chapter.
+
+@section Mapping Interrupts to POSIX Signals
+
+In Ada95, interrupts can be attached with the interrupt_attach pragma. 
+For most systems, the gnat run-time will use POSIX signal to implement
+the interrupt handling, mapping one signal per interrupt. For interrupts
+to be propagated to the attached Ada handler, the corresponding signal
+must be raised when the interrupt occurs. 
+
+The same mechanism is used to generate Ada error exceptions. 
+Three error exceptions are defined: program, constraint and storage
+error. These are generated by raising the predefined signals: SIGILL, 
+SIGFPE and SIGSEGV. These signals should be raised when a spurious
+or erroneous trap occurs.
+
+To enable gnat interrupt and error exception support for a particular 
+BSP, the following has to be done:
+
+@enumerate
+
+@item Write an interrupt/trap handler that will raise the corresponding
+signal depending on the interrupt/trap number.
+
+@item Install the interrupt handler for all interrupts/traps that will be
+handled by gnat (including spurious).
+
+@item At startup, gnat calls @code{__gnat_install_handler()}. The BSP 
+must provide this function which installs the interrupt/trap handlers.
+
+@end enumerate
+
+Which CPU-interrupt will generate which signal is implementation
+defined. There are 32 POSIX signals (1 - 32), and all except the
+three error signals (SIGILL, SIGFPE and SIGSEGV) can be used. I
+would suggest to use the upper 16 (17 - 32) which do not
+have an assigned POSIX name.
+
+Note that the pragma interrupt_attach will only bind a signal
+to a particular Ada handler - it will not unmask the
+interrupt or do any other things to enable it. This have to be
+done separately, typically by writing various device register.
+
+@section Example Ada95 Interrupt Program
+
+An example program (@code{irq_test}) is included in the
+Ada examples package to show how interrupts can be handled
+in Ada95. Note that generation of the test interrupt
+(@code{irqforce.c}) is BSP specific and must be edited.
+
+NOTE: The @code{irq_test} example was written for the SPARC/ERC32
+BSP.
+
+@section Version Requirements
+
+With RTEMS 4.0, a patch was required to psignal.c in RTEMS
+sources (to correct a bug associated to the default action of
+signals 15-32).   The SPARC/ERC32 RTEMS BSP includes the
+@code{gnatsupp} subdirectory that can be used as an example
+for other BSPs.
+
+With GNAT 3.11p, a patch is required for @code{a-init.c} to invoke
+the BSP specific routine that installs the exception handlers.
+