Re: How do package body initializers get run in GNU Ada?

[russian_power@hotmail.com (Romanov)]

Van Snyder <vsnyder@math.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote in message news:<3DC31EBB.2050809@math.jpl.nasa.gov>...
> In GNU Ada, what mechanism is used to cause execution of package
> body initializers, i.e., the code between begin and end in a
> package body?
> 
> Is it done using some kind of back-patching/overlaying done
> by an otherwise garden-variety ld, by special features added
> to ld to support Ada, by first-time flags at the entries
> to procedures, or by something else?

I thought it was done when the package was being elaborated? Package
elaboration takes place when the package is instantiated. statements
like 'with text_io;' executes the body initializers.

Ada is much more precise about initialization that C/C++ is. That's
why we have 'pragma elaborate(xxx);' statements

but i use the dynamic elaboration feature in gnat. so much easier...
you only get a problem when you try to use another joker who uses
static elaboration instead...