Re: Refactoring and Ada

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

It would seem that the answer to that problem would be: "Turn the missile's
computer on & initialize everything before you light the fuse...." but
that's just me. :-)

I've had a number of issues in the past with elaboration for embedded
platforms - in particular with respect to having large static tables
initialized & wanting to put the structures into ROM. The compiler I was
using at the time wanted to keep the static data for itself then try to
write the data to ROM at elaboration. Needless to say, this sucked. I'm
wondering if preelaborate would have fixed that?

MDC
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"Pat Rogers" <progers@classwide.com> wrote in message
news:yZD78.8997$Bf6.3206761629@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com...
>
> It came out of the Ada Run-Time Environment Working Group (ARTEWG) Catalog
of
> Interface Features and Options (CIFO) for Ada 83.  A member had an
embedded
> air-to-air missile application that took too long to elaborate -- it was
already
> off the rail by then, but not quite ready to fly -- hence the pragma.  A
number
> of Ada 95's real-time facilities can be traced to the CIFO.  Some of it
was
> overkill, but much was very good.
>