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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Elaboration checks
Date: 2000/02/13
Date: 2000-02-13T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8873ge$7vk$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38A6BB10.560D973A@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk

In article <38A6BB10.560D973A@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk>,
  Martin Dowie <martin@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> about 15% of our executable appear to be made up of
> elaboration checks (this is the size difference after
> inserting configuration pragma suppress (elaboration_check)).

Sounds like your compiler is doing absolutely NO optimization
of elaboration checks at all, which can indeed lead to pretty
gruesome code. If you used GNAT, then the checking is typically
done at compile time, and you have static safety plus almost no
overhead from elaboration checking.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-02-13  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-02-13  0:00 Elaboration checks Martin Dowie
2000-02-13  0:00 ` Jeff Creem
2000-02-13  0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2000-02-13  0:00   ` Martin Dowie
2000-02-14  0:00     ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-02-14  0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-02-15  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-15  0:00     ` Tucker Taft
2000-02-14  0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
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