[Announce] AVR-Ada V1.0 released

[Announce] AVR-Ada V1.0 released

[Rolf]

We are proud to announce a new release of AVR-Ada, one of the first
GCC
based Ada compilers targeting 8-bit microcontrolers.

The project description consists of some wiki pages at

     http://avr-ada.sourceforge.net/

This is a source only release, i.e. you get patches and instructions
for
building your own cross compiler, the run time system, and the
support
packages. There are no pre-built binaries yet.

The download is available at the green button on page

     http://sourceforge.net/projects/avr-ada


If you have difficulties in building or using the compiler or you
want
to chat aabout a project, please join and use the mailing list at

     http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/avr-ada-devel.



Status
======

The goal of the AVR-Ada project is to make the gcc based Ada compiler
GNAT available for the AVR microcontrollers.

More specifically the project provides

 -  a GNAT compiler based on the existing AVR and Ada support in gcc
 -  a minimalistic Ada runtime system
 -  a useful AVR specific support library
 -  support packages for accessing LCDs and for Dallas' 1-wire sensors

The current distribution of AVR-Ada is V1.0. It is based on gcc-4.3.3.

The Ada run time system (RTS) on the other hand is still not even a
*run* time system.  It is more a compile time system :-). Mostfiles in
the RTS are only needed at compile time.  As a consequence we don't
have support for exceptions nor for tasking (multithreading).

There is a bit of AVR specific support.  Some type and interface
definitions, timing routines, eeprom access, UART, and most
importantly the necessary definitions for most AVR parts.
The syntax for accessing ports and specific bits changed radically
(compared to previous releases) thanks to a patch provided by Adacore.
You can now read and write every predefined port either as an
Unsigned_8 or as an array (0..7) of Boolean.

Some sample programs in the apps/ directory show how to use the
compiler
and the library.  This includes some of Peter Fleury's example
programs
(http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunrise/peterfleury/avr-software.html)
translated to Ada.

Re: AVR-Ada V1.0 released

[RasikaSrinivasan]

On Dec 7, 3:21 am, Rolf <rolf.ebert_nosp...@gmx.net> wrote:
> We are proud to announce a new release of AVR-Ada, one of the first
> GCC
> based Ada compilers targeting 8-bit microcontrolers.
>
> The project description consists of some wiki pages at
>
>      http://avr-ada.sourceforge.net/
>
> This is a source only release, i.e. you get patches and instructions
> for
> building your own cross compiler, the run time system, and the
> support
> packages. There are no pre-built binaries yet.
>
> The download is available at the green button on page
>
>      http://sourceforge.net/projects/avr-ada
>
> If you have difficulties in building or using the compiler or you
> want
> to chat aabout a project, please join and use the mailing list at
>
>      http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/avr-ada-devel.
>
> Status
> ======
>
> The goal of the AVR-Ada project is to make the gcc based Ada compiler
> GNAT available for the AVR microcontrollers.
>
> More specifically the project provides
>
>  -  a GNAT compiler based on the existing AVR and Ada support in gcc
>  -  a minimalistic Ada runtime system
>  -  a useful AVR specific support library
>  -  support packages for accessing LCDs and for Dallas' 1-wire sensors
>
> The current distribution of AVR-Ada is V1.0. It is based on gcc-4.3.3.
>
> The Ada run time system (RTS) on the other hand is still not even a
> *run* time system.  It is more a compile time system :-). Mostfiles in
> the RTS are only needed at compile time.  As a consequence we don't
> have support for exceptions nor for tasking (multithreading).
>
> There is a bit of AVR specific support.  Some type and interface
> definitions, timing routines, eeprom access, UART, and most
> importantly the necessary definitions for most AVR parts.
> The syntax for accessing ports and specific bits changed radically
> (compared to previous releases) thanks to a patch provided by Adacore.
> You can now read and write every predefined port either as an
> Unsigned_8 or as an array (0..7) of Boolean.
>
> Some sample programs in the apps/ directory show how to use the
> compiler
> and the library.  This includes some of Peter Fleury's example
> programs
> (http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunrise/peterfleury/avr-software.html)
> translated to Ada.

the documentation "building AVR gnat for windows" on sourceforge
appears truncated. Is it possible to provide the complete doc? Or am I
doing something worng? please help. regards, srini