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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> Probably, but not all Ada compilers will do that. OTOH, it really
> doesn't matter unless you need to burn a ROM (the time elaboration
> takes is usually small enough to ignore).

The Cortex-M series have much larger ROM (well, Flash) than RAM; for
example, the Arduino Due has 512K Flash, 96K SRAM. So you are much
better off having constant data that can stay in the Flash.