Re: Typical handling of packages through compilers

["Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

On 22 juil, 16:29, Adam Beneschan <a...@irvine.com> wrote:
> By the way, "inner packages" don't have any effect at all on this, and
> I'd guess that that is true for other compilers as well.  Inner
> packages are not at all reflected in the structure of the object
> file.  Our linker considers each code or data item individually to see
> if it can be eliminated; it doesn't care at all about whether they've
> been grouped into another package.
>
>                                            -- Adam

So if I have

package P is
...
   package Q is
      ....
   end Q;
end P;

then with most compiler, Q will not be linked unless it is referenced

That's a good news

In the mean time, I know that a lot of Ada users don't bother about
plus or minus 150KB, so it's not a surprise if some compilers don't
bother about it.

Adam, are you a member of a compiler vendor team ?