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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,abb1e236be58955,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: rolf.ebert_nospam_@gmx.net Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: [Announce] AVR-Ada V0.3 released Date: 3 Aug 2005 03:24:10 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1123064650.840799.253340@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.152.31.129 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1123064656 15739 127.0.0.1 (3 Aug 2005 10:24:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 10:24:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=84.152.31.129; posting-account=X6JcNAwAAACCYFUClJvh1OjD0lgttvkm Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3926 Date: 2005-08-03T03:24:10-07:00 List-Id: We are proud to announce a new release of AVR-Ada, one of the first GCC based Ada compilers targeting 8-bit microcontrolers. You can get the project description and some documentation at avr-ada.sourceforge.net The SF development pages with the download section are at www.sourceforge.net/projects/avr-ada AVR-Ada is available in source form only. Binary packages of the cross compiler hosted on Linux and Windows are expected to appear with future releases of cdk4avr (cdk4avr.sourceforge.net) and WinAVR (winavr.sourceforge.net). Feel free to join the mailing list at http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/avr-ada-devel. It has quite low traffic. Please use SF's bug reporting system for guiding future development of AVR-Ada. 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 The current distribution of AVR-Ada is V0.3. It is based on gcc-3.4.4. In the AVR-Ada project we never had problems with the Ada compiler itself. It is quite stable. 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 :-). All files 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. Some sample programs in the apps/ directory show how to use the compiler and the library. This includes the tutorial program from an older avr-libc distribution and some of Peter Fleury's example programs (http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunrise/peterfleury/avr-software.html) translated to Ada. The documentation is still low and consists only of the pages at avr-ada.sourceforge.net. A copy of the pages is in the directory AVR-Ada/web/ for offline reading. Feel free to ask any question on the mailing list. News ==== 0.3 (2005-08-03) ---------------- The part description spec files are completely new. The Ada specs are now generated directly from Atmel's XML part description files of AVR Studio 4.11 build 406 SP 2. In previous versions they were derived from the C header files of avr-libc. We changed the syntax for accessing single bits from bit numbering to masks in AVR.IO. Simple names in the part description specs now contain bit masks, the pin number is still available with the name xxx_Bit. E.g.: -- Port D Data Register bit 3 PORTD3_Bit : constant Bit_Number := 3; PORTD3 : constant Byte := 16#08#; The previous Set_IO routines in AVR.IO were renamed to simply Put omitting the _IO, the Get_IO have become Get. That is more in the style of other Ada IO packages like Text_IO. New packages for string handling and accessing constants in program space. They are actually a stripped down version of Ada.Strings.Bounded. We build part specific libraries now. That means that we can provide specific functionality adapted to a given part. It is currently used for the UART and EEPROM access only, though. The example programs for accessing 1-wire devices and an LCD are not part of the distribution anymore. They are only available via CVS. There is also starting support for the atmega169 based AVR Butterfly in the CVS repository (UART, LCD, and dataflash). 0.2 (2004-10-28) ---------------- We modified the compiler patches to fit cleanly to gcc-3.4.3. They probably also fit in previous gcc-3.4.x releases; I never tried. The "freestanding" patch is now considerably shorter since part of what it does (avoid some code in the binder file) is now provided directly in gcc. The corresponding binder options was previously called "standalone", but that expression is used elsewhere in GNAT. You can now use "Library Projects" with AVR-Ada. I.e. you can have gpr files with "Library_Name", etc. The only permitted value for "Library_Kind" is "static". This feature is used for the Avr library. gcc-3.4.3 now fully supports -fdata-sections (PR14064) and -ffunction-sections for AVR targets in C and Ada. This particularily useful for embedded systems where code and static data must not be wasted.