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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: Runtime startup code for the GNAT Runtime...and a bit of humble
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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 01:05:06 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2013-03-19, Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
>
> Just a wild idea: have you considered writing these bare-metal parts in
> Ada with no run-time whatsoever, linking and importing some existing
> routines from the C run-time?  Is this an acceptable compromise?
>

But then you would have code which looks like Ada, but behaves like C. :-)

As I mentioned in another post, I think my real problem here is with the
GNAT toolchain and not Ada itself, but thanks for the suggestion.

Simon.

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