Re: Compile time executed functions

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <lEHw6.434$2g1.81555482@newssvr16.news.prodigy.com>, Ken Garlington
says...
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>"Mats Karlssohn" <mats@mida.se> wrote in message
>: As I noted in the original post, this can be (and is today) solved by
>: manually putting GenerateTable into its own program and the pasting the
>: output into the source of package BlahBlah. This has caused management
>: problems and I expect it to continue to do so.
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>It's the part about "pasting the output" that seems odd. Why not have it
>generate a stand-alone Ada *package* (e.g, BlahBlah)? We do this now in a

We also do that now to generate external interface packages automaticly from ICD
databases.

For that matter, with a little investigation into your platform's object file
formats, you could just have your program directly create an object file with
the data in it, and "pragma Import" it and link it with your Ada code. On an
embedded system you could also just write the data out into a binary file, have
it burned into a set place in ROM, and use "for use at" to map an Ada structure
there.

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