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From: Lucretia <Lucretia9000@yahoo.co.uk>
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Just to clarify, this vector is to be:

1) set up by the user
2) gathered by the linker script and written out at the start of the
elf
3) placed at address 0 in the elf
4) made ROMable

>From your responses, it seems that you don't quite understand my aim
here, point 4 is the most important here, ROMable means, the compiler
must not under any circumstance create any elaboration code to
initialise the array and given that the array is 1) constant and 2)
has known contents, the compiler should be capable of this. Maybe GNAT
can't do it? Maybe Ada can't do it and actually is wrong for OS
development? Which I doubt otherwise, I may as well go create my own
strongly typed language for OS/embedded work?

Luke.