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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Floating point problem
Date: 1997/03/31
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iTom Moran says

<,  It appears that means "No.  It is not possible for a user program to
run FPU detection code before a Gnat program has crashed and burned,
unless the programmer has used special vendor supplied hooks".  Is that
correct?>>

"special vendor supplied hooks???"

Don't know what you are talking about, I am talking about the call to
__gnat_initialize which is intended exactly for this purpose. It may
work to do this at the start of the main program, or in elaboration
code for a user unit, but since __gnat_initialize is EXACTLY intended
for this kind of purpose (to get control BEFORE any elaboration code
is activated), why would you not use it???