Re: Compile time executed functions

[Mats Karlssohn <mats@mida.se>]

Ted Dennison wrote:
> 
> In article <3ACAD2B2.4252FD7B@mida.se>, Mats Karlssohn says...
> >
> >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
> >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
> 
> :-)
> 
> It always warms my heart to see someone writing a compiler in Ada (even if they
> don't always realize that's what they are doing).

well I've been down that road a few times, one of the more entertaining
ones were the compiler that translated a map database in som ugly
textformat into Megatek displaylists, binary files that were later
loaded onto the graphics hardware. It was entertaining since debugging
was just about impossible, since most of the time the graphics system
(a Sigma 70) would just hang when you fed it incorrect data, forcing
a partitial (or sometimes a full) reset/reboot of the system (Sun
4/300).

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