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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Help with embedded hardware/software platform selection for ADA
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 16:02:10 +0000 (UTC)
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
> "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com> wrote in message 
> news:237325009394503647.389498laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org...
>> "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
>>> So, IMHO (and much like SPARK), Ravenscar is a tool needed only in very
>>> specialized circumstances (typically, some sort of certification
>>> requirement). Otherwise, one ought to forget about it and use Ada as it 
>>> was
>>> intended.
>> 
>> The point of this thread is this, you can't use stock GNAT rts with these
>> small boards, it has to be custom and is something I'm working on.
> 
> You can't really use Ada on those very small systems -- you can only use a 
> tiny Ada subset, one that reduces the advantages of Ada a lot. Unless you're 
> in the tiny minority of people that prefer the Ada *syntax* to that of C, 
> you're not really gaining anything. (Ada witthout exceptions and most 
> tasking isn't Ada at all, IMHO). RRS tried to serve that market back in the 
> early days and got nowhere.
> 
>                                                  Randy.

You can have local exceptions no propagation, also can have a small
secondary stack and tasking.