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Subject: Re: Application Size in Ada
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chris wrote:

> 
> You can import DLLs written in many other compilers/languages fairly 
> easily, providing they don't require any special runtime be setup prior 
> to accessing them.  Going the other way, say from GNAT to C (gcc) is a 
> little more difficult because you have to initialise the Ada runtime and 
> the C won't necessarily understand the Ada types.

Doh!  Me stupid!

I should have said you to deal with elaboration for the library, not the 
Ada runtime.  Where's my brain been the past 6 weeks?