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From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Curiousity: pragma No_Run_Time for Gnat
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O.K. I've bookmarked that. I'll look at it as soon as I can get that elusive
Round Tuit.

I'm also wondering if it would eschew any BIOS calls or if the BIOS would be
presumed? I'm wondering if I can really get some sort of "pure" x86 code?

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"Sergey Koshcheyev" <serko84@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:9oo7ne$145d$1@ns.felk.cvut.cz...
>
>
> My experience (I don't have the GNORT documentation) was that GNAT indeed
> produced "self-contained" executables when this pragma was used, except it
> once needed to call memcpy from the C library (when copying arrays), but I
> linked that in statically.
>
> Serge Robyns has written a small OS kernel using GNAT and pragma
No_Run_Time
> this way. It can be found at http://web.wanadoo.be/rc.s/AdaOS/index.html
>
> Sergey Koshcheyev
>
>