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From: mitch@nospam
Subject: what does preelaborated package mean?
Date: 1999/10/26
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Date: 1999-10-26T00:00:00+00:00
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hi Ada experts,

I am studying gnat code, and I see it says in few places that this
package is 'preelaborated' followed by "can thus be with'ed by 
preelaborated library units".

what exactly does this mean? I know what elaboration means, which is
done at run time. So, a package that is 'preelaborated', when does
this happen? and if this is a good thing, why not do everything like
that? 

thanks,
mitch.