Re: C versus Ada (once again :-)), was: Re: F-22 ADA Programming

[Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>]

Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:

> Two good examples are ARM and PIC32. Luke's done some good work in

I never got to pic32, but it's just nips and if mops have finally added the
patches to GCC in the Fsf tree then it should be ok and at the same level
as any other arch-elf target.

> this area, but the last time I checked (a year or two ago) he was
> having problems with things breaking between gcc versions and getting
> gcc to build for these targets seemed way more fragile than it should
> be.

It's been a while for me. But it's always been a bitch and it shouldn't be.


>> There is no freeware Ada for iOS right now. There is no workable
>> freeware Ada for Android right now. This should cover the mass market of
>> computers for entertainment, communication, and contacts, excluding gaming.
>> 
> 
> I thought someone had brought up an Ada cross compiler for Android by
> using a FreeBSD host ?

John Marino did that, I used his patches to get it to work on linux, but
they didn't come over straight, I had to fiddle with it as BSD /= Linux.

> Are you saying it doesn't work ? (I'm currently getting into the world
> of Android development and once I understand it enough using the supported
> languages, I was going to have a look at Ada on Android).

It should do. What you won't get are bindings to the Android API.

> BTW, I was amused to see someone has got Fortran code running on an
> Android target. :-)

And people think we're wasting our time with Ada!

Luke