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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Calling Ada from C
Date: 1995/03/28
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Date: 1995-03-28T00:00:00+00:00
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OK, Ted, to be more accurate, if the main program is in C, and the Ada
packages are not all preelaborable, then you do indeed need right now
to call an elaboration routine, as recommended in the RM. However it is
in our plans to use Collect2 so that this elaboration is performed
automatically (it's the same problem as getting C++ constructors 
elaborated, so it's a solved problem to do this automatically, we just
haven't integrated this solution yet).

Also rememember that these days, with Ada 95, you have to concern yourself
not just with elaboration of library packages, but also with finaliation
of library packages.