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From: Mark Lorenzen <mark.lorenzen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Does Ada still competitive?
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Date: 2012-04-13T06:15:54-07:00
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I won't comment on all your rambling, but focus on a feature of GNAT.

On 13 Apr., 11:06, a...@att.net wrote:
>
> Then later in the binder ("gnatbind") could remove any dead code from
> precompiled Ada library packages, while linking that package, unlike most
> other linkers which just copy the dead code into the program. But in order
> to remove the dead code the binder ("gnatbind") would have to bypass calling
> GCC linkers and preform the link/editing itself while removing the dead code
> from the library packages. And course this removes the constant updating
> of GNAT to every new version of GCC, which saves money and time.

The GNU linker that is shipped with GNAT is perfectly able to remove
unused subprograms and unused data from the executable. See
http://docs.adacore.com/gnat-unw-docs/html/gnat_ugn_8.html#SEC103

Regards

Mark L