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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Interfacing Ada with Ada
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* dhenry:

> I'm afraid my old code is using the gnat runtime :(
> I imagined once something like interfacing old code with C and then
> the C with new code. But linking may be hard, especially with the gnat
> runtime dependency.

If your platform has a decent linker, you can link the old code and
only make very few symbols available.  You need to link the GNAT
run-time library statically, but that's probably the least of your
problems.