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From: Mats Karlssohn <mats@mida.se>
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Subject: Re: Compile time executed functions
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Ted Dennison wrote:
%<
> For that matter, with a little investigation into your platform's object file
> formats, you could just have your program directly create an object file with
> the data in it, and "pragma Import" it and link it with your Ada code. On an
> embedded system you could also just write the data out into a binary file, have
> it burned into a set place in ROM, and use "for use at" to map an Ada structure
> there.

Well actually this is what I decided to do during the weekend.
Since i have GNU libbfd.so creating an object file should be
pretty easy and GNU objcopy can be a friend when the need to
for more platforms arise.

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Mats Karlssohn, developer                         mailto:mats@mida.se  
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