Re: GNAT internals question

["David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>]

Interesting.

I looked at all of my object files containing Ada_Main packages --
i.e. all b~*.o files -- and found only ada_main___elabb -- not a
single instance of ada_main___elabs.

Can you supply an example?

I suspect that the ada_main_elabb is never called, because looking
at the source code for the Ada_Main packages, I could see nothing
that would require elaboration code to be generated.  The compiler
probably always generates a stub for body elaboration, but never
calls it because it would do nothing.
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "sk" <sknipe@ktc.com>
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Sent: June 26, 2002 6:50 AM
Subject: GNAT internals question


> Hi, 
> 
> I have recently been looking at the code generated by 
> the "gcc -S ..." assembly listing of the binding file 
> for an Ada main and a "phantom" function "ada_main___elabs" 
> appears.
> 
> Using "objdump" to view the final object code, the function
> also appears.
> 
> However, I cannot find where and under what circumatances 
> "ada_main___elabs" is referenced or called.
> 
> Does anyone have experience of "ada_main___elabs" and be
> willing to share this information ?
> 
> Also, any knowledge or "gotchas" concerning the GNAT
> "pragma No_Run_Time" ?
> 
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