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From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: How can I get this data into the .data section of the binary?
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 14:44:02 +0100
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On 16/06/2020 14:29, J-P. Rosen wrote:
> Le 16/06/2020 à 14:59, Luke A. Guest a écrit :
>> Which misses the point entirely of my original issue, and complete
>> hatred of this part of Ada. Literally, if something can be compiled to
>> be in the data section, it should be.
> 
> I understand your problem, but this is a compiler issue, not a language
> issue. There is no such thing as a "data section" in a high level,
> machine independent, definition of a programming language...
> 

According to 10.2.1 it should be possible:

   is important that programs be able to declare data structures that
are link-time initialized with aggregates, string_literals, and
concatenations thereof. etc.

Even adding pragma Preelaborable_Initialization (x) for each of the
types, doesn't do anything.