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From: Lucretia <Lucretia9000@yahoo.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: How do I disable elaboration code on this
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The problem has nothing to do with the linker, I'm using binutils and
gnat that I'e built myself. The problem is that GNAT is generating
elaboration code where it is not allowed, i.e. code that 1)
initialises  the array to 0 and 2) code that the copies function
addresses into the array.

If this cannot work then I'm surprised and I'll be forced to use
separate constants as noted by Rolf. It just seems like overkill
having to specify each element separately when an array is the right
structure ffor the job.

And in other languages like C it doesn't do the same thing. You can
specify a static constant array and it'll initialise it with the right
data.

Luke