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On 04/13/2012 06:02 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Apr 13, 8:15 am, Mark Lorenzen<mark.loren...@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>> I won't comment on all your rambling, but focus on a feature of GNAT.
>>
>> On 13 Apr., 11:06, a...@att.net wrote:
>>
>>> Then later in the binder ("gnatbind") could remove any dead code from
>>> precompiled Ada library packages, while linking that package, unlike most
>>> other linkers which just copy the dead code into the program. But in order
>>> to remove the dead code the binder ("gnatbind") would have to bypass calling
>>> GCC linkers and preform the link/editing itself while removing the dead code
>>> from the library packages. And course this removes the constant updating
>>> of GNAT to every new version of GCC, which saves money and time.
>>
>> The GNU linker that is shipped with GNAT is perfectly able to remove
>> unused subprograms and unused data from the executable. See
>> http://docs.adacore.com/gnat-unw-docs/html/gnat_ugn_8.html#SEC103
>
> This only works for ELF, I think. At least it doesn't work for DJGPP
> COFF.

Does current, or even remotely recent, GNAT support DJGPP?  I haven't 
heard of a version since around 3.15.  Could that be the problem?

>       Maybe your point was that it does (sometimes) work and could
> work in all places, but that doesn't change the fact that it's not a
> universal solution, sadly.


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