From: Mike H <postmaster@ada-augusta.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Low-level programming in Ada?
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 12:25:03 +0100
Date: 2013-08-10T12:25:03+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0ZKFBdCPMiBSFwdo@ada-augusta.demon.co.uk> (raw)
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In message <7x1u64hk2p.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com>, Paul Rubin
<no.email@nospam.invalid> writes
>I'm wondering if anyone can suggest a reference (preferably online)
>about low-level programming (e.g. for operating system implementation)
>in Ada. Not about the language itself, but examples of dealing with
>machine addresses, device registers, page tables, memory management,
>etc., preferably without dropping to assembler more than a tiny bit.
>
I have only done it once and it is nearly 30 years since I did it, but I
remember starting by writing a mirror of the memory map of the target
device as an Ada package. Perhaps my memories are rose-tinted but, from
there, it all seemed to grow naturally.
--
Mike
Swim? Naturally at Severn Vale
<http://www.severnvalesc.org/>
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2013-08-08 4:39 Low-level programming in Ada? Paul Rubin
2013-08-08 13:47 ` Michael Erdmann
2013-08-08 14:59 ` Eryndlia Mavourneen
2013-08-08 21:17 ` Bill Findlay
2013-08-11 7:10 ` Mike H
2013-08-11 8:10 ` Simon Wright
2013-08-11 8:17 ` Mike H
2013-08-12 16:17 ` Eryndlia Mavourneen
2013-08-14 18:13 ` Erik Baigar
2013-08-14 21:19 ` Simon Wright
2013-08-11 21:12 ` Bill Findlay
2013-08-14 17:55 ` Erik Baigar
2013-08-14 18:16 ` Bill Findlay
2013-08-15 19:12 ` Erik Baigar
2013-08-16 19:55 ` Erik Baigar
2013-08-10 11:25 ` Mike H [this message]
2013-08-13 8:14 ` Luke A. Guest
2013-08-18 9:26 ` Paul Rubin
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