Re: How can I get this data into the .data section of the binary?

[Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>]

On 2020-06-16 14:31, Luke A. Guest wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to get some static data tables into the data section rather
> than be elaborated at runtime. I can see no reason why this particular
> set of types, records and aggregates cannot go into the data section.

    [snip]

>     Pixel_Format_Unknown     : constant Pixel_Format_Names :=
>       Pixel_Format_Names'(Planar        => True,
>                           Planar_Format => Planar_Pixels'
>                             (others => Ada.Characters.Latin_1.NUL));

Several years ago we had a problem like this, with a large constant 
array that we wanted to have only once in RAM. This was with the XGC Ada 
compiler, but there we found a work-around: using positional rather than 
named association for the large array aggregate.

I have no idea if this will help you -- the types in our case were much 
simpler -- but you might try it with a small subset of your package:

    Pixel_Format_Unknown     : constant Pixel_Format_Names :=
      (True, (NUL, NUL, NUL, NUL));

(assuming "use Ada.Characters.Latin_1").

-- 
Niklas Holsti
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