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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Pragma Export and initialized variables
Date: 24 Jan 2002 16:38:23 -0600
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In article <uvgdrr1j0.fsf@wanadoo.fr>, Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> 
> Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:
> 
>> > I read about "adainit" and "adafinal" inside the L.R.M., 
>> 
>> Um, no, these are GNAT terms, not Ada terms. You must have seen them
>> in the GNAT user guide.
> 
> No. This is in Ada RM B.1.39.

I see them mentioned on http://www.adapower.com/rm95/arm95_265.html
in B.1.6 (with no B.1.39 present).  But their use is just a mechanism
recommended for "typical systems".  Certainly Compaq Ada (83) takes
care of elaboration in this circumstance without any special call,
but that started in 1986 and was originally missing due to a VMS
operating system shortcoming.  Finalization should be possible
with a similar mechanism, although I presume GNAT uses something
that works the same way as on other platforms.  For initialization,
however, I would hope that GNAT on VMS would be arranged to take
existing Compaq Ada code without adding such calls.