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The objective of this paper is to give some reflections about handling of exceptions in hard real-time environments, which is among the less elaborated topics in this domain.
A classification of possible exceptions in real-time systems is done, to identify the ones which can be prevented by certain design measures or avoided by specifying and servicing them within their contexts. A way to survive the remaining ones in a well-structured and predictable way, and as painlessly as possible, is proposed.
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Colnarič, M., Halang, W.A. (1993). Exception Handling and Predictability in Hard Real-Time Systems. In: Górski, J. (eds) SAFECOMP ’93. SAFECOMP 1993. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2061-2_36
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