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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: GNAT Codesize
Date: 1996/07/03
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Date: 1996-07-03T00:00:00+00:00
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John McCabe said

"Not in my experience. My current compiler uses a proprietary format
and even when using an Tek emulator with a Tek 8086 Pascal
cross-compiler on a VAX we had to use a separate utility to format the
output for use in the emuulator."

The fact that one particular system is not organized enough to have a well
defined ABI and compilers and tools that conform to this ABI is hardly
significant. The fact is that many systems *do* have such conventions,
and they are followed!