Libraries written in Ada

[Thomas Lotze <thomas@thomas-lotze.de>]

Hi,

I'm thinking about developing a library implementing a document model and
file format, and it seems Ada is a good choice of language for that. I
wonder, however, whether Ada's runtime environment doesn't count as a con
there.

The problem is not that it has to be initialized when using the library
from another language, e.g. C. Many libraries need some initialization.
But suppose I use two libs written in Ada in the same C program - will
there be problems with the runtime environment? I don't think there
should, just asking for your experience to be sure. (I also considered
OCaml, and it's a problem there. But linking works differently with OCaml
so that each lib effectively brings it's own runtime environment.)

Can the runtime environment and its initialization be omitted completely
by dropping runtime checks on variable bounds etc?

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Viele Gr��e,
Thomas