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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: Strip procedure prologue and epilogue
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On Dec 16, 11:52 pm, pini <zep...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A usual procedure like
>
> procedure Foo
> begin
>   -- some stuff here;
> end;
>
> generates a prologue like
>
> pushl %ebx
> -- generated code for some stuff here
> popl %ebx
>
> I have a very specific procedure whose purpose is to be called at
> bootloading time and set up a stack, so there is no need for the
> prologue and epilogue of this procedure to exist.
> Is there an ada-only way (through a pragma for instance) to strip the
> prologue and epilogue of this procedure ?
>
> Any help is welcome.

I'm not an expert in this matter but maybe you should look at how
Lovelace boots. The source is in the public monotone server I just
mentioned and there's a snapshot at
http://people.debian.org/~lbrenta/org.os-lovelace-2008-07-02T21:01:02.tar.gz

More info about Lovelace on http://www.lovelace.fr

HTH

--
Ludovic Brenta.