From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border1.nntp.ams3.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams2.giganews.com!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.astraweb.com!border6.a.newsrouter.astraweb.com!cyclone03.ams2.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!voer-me.highwinds-media.com!peer03.am1!peering.am1!npeersf04.am4!fx28.fr7.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <0ZKFBdCPMiBSFwdo@ada-augusta.demon.co.uk> From: Mike H Reply-To: Mike Hopkins Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Low-level programming in Ada? References: <7x1u64hk2p.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii;format=flowed User-Agent: Turnpike/6.07-M (<8J9$+nfQ77f5k5dieK5NqJ42C4>) NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.104.138.185 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: 1376134460 83.104.138.185 (Sat, 10 Aug 2013 11:34:20 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 11:34:20 UTC Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 12:25:03 +0100 X-Received-Bytes: 1558 X-Original-Bytes: 1741 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:182934 Date: 2013-08-10T12:25:03+01:00 List-Id: In message <7x1u64hk2p.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com>, Paul Rubin 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