From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: How can I get this data into the .data section of the binary?
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2020 22:55:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rcmlnr$er7$1@franka.jacob-sparre.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: hl0s14FsgcgU1@mid.individual.net
"Niklas Holsti" <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> wrote in message
news:hl0s14FsgcgU1@mid.individual.net...
> On 2020-06-18 5:55, Randy Brukardt wrote:
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>> The better question is why you care?
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>
> [snip]
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>> (The situation can be different on a bare machine, of course.)
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>
...
> For my case of the large constant array, we needed to save RAM space, and
> did not want to spend RAM _both_ for the elaboration code that initialized
> the array (larger than the array itself) and for the array.
I suppose it would depend on the declaration of the array, but I would not
expect that to be the case most of the time. Typically, one can initialize
most Ada data types with a block-copy, which would only be a handful of
bytes on most target machines. Of course, if you have lots of controlled
types and tasks, you'd have issues, but those aren't preelaborable anyway
(some code would need to be executed for them).
That's the sort of thing that having a good relationship with your compiler
vendor can help with, since it often wouldn't take much tweaking to
eliminate expensive elaboration code. (It's not something I pay much
attention to unless a customer asks...)
Randy.
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2020-06-16 11:31 How can I get this data into the .data section of the binary? Luke A. Guest
2020-06-16 11:37 ` Luke A. Guest
2020-06-16 11:50 ` J-P. Rosen
2020-06-16 12:36 ` Luke A. Guest
2020-06-16 12:45 ` Luke A. Guest
2020-06-16 12:56 ` J-P. Rosen
2020-06-16 12:59 ` Luke A. Guest
2020-06-16 13:29 ` J-P. Rosen
2020-06-16 13:44 ` Luke A. Guest
2020-06-18 2:55 ` Randy Brukardt
2020-06-18 9:55 ` Niklas Holsti
2020-06-21 3:55 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2020-06-21 6:55 ` Niklas Holsti
2020-06-16 13:52 ` Mark Lorenzen
2020-06-16 14:08 ` Luke A. Guest
2020-06-16 13:03 ` Luke A. Guest
2020-06-16 14:14 ` Niklas Holsti
2020-06-16 14:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-06-16 14:32 ` Niklas Holsti
2020-06-16 14:42 ` Luke A. Guest
2020-06-16 15:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-06-16 15:43 ` Luke A. Guest
2020-06-16 16:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-06-16 14:40 ` Luke A. Guest
2020-06-16 18:19 ` Tero Koskinen
2020-06-17 12:37 ` Luke A. Guest
2020-06-17 14:01 ` Niklas Holsti
2020-06-17 15:17 ` Luke A. Guest
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