Re: Differences between gnat 4.4.5 and 4.5.1

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Noel Duffy writes:
> I ran objdump -S on the text sections in both executables after
> recompiling but not stripping debug symbols. The Fedora/gnat-4.5.1
> executable has many more functions. Here is a list of them. [...]
> 
> There are 68 of them. The Debian/gnat-4.4.5 version contains just:
>
> 0000000000402100 <_start>:
> 000000000040212c <call_gmon_start>:
> 0000000000402150 <__do_global_dtors_aux>:
> 00000000004021c0 <frame_dummy>:
> 00000000004021e4 <adafinal>:
> 00000000004021e9 <adainit>:
> 00000000004023da <main>:
> 000000000040242c <hello___clean.2605>:
> 0000000000402455 <_ada_hello>:
> 00000000004024f0 <__libc_csu_fini>:
> 0000000000402500 <__libc_csu_init>:
> 0000000000402590 <__do_global_ctors_aux>:

Here is what I have on my executable compiled with gnat-4.5:

00000000004021e0 <_start>:
000000000040220c <call_gmon_start>:
0000000000402230 <__do_global_dtors_aux>:
00000000004022a0 <frame_dummy>:
00000000004022c4 <adainit>:
000000000040252d <adafinal>:
0000000000402532 <main>:
0000000000402584 <hello___clean.2354>:
00000000004025ad <_ada_hello>:
0000000000402650 <__libc_csu_fini>:
0000000000402660 <__libc_csu_init>:
00000000004026f0 <__do_global_ctors_aux>:

> Time perhaps to take this to Fedora's mailing lists to see if they can
> shed any light on it.

Or maybe try with stock GCC 4.5?

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.