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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada for the next bare metal project?
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 22:19:55 +0000 (UTC)
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<droiddermo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, friends! I'm going to implement a new project, that needs to run
> without operating system on bare metal x86 and x64 processors. And I'm
> thinking about using Ada instead of C. First of all what compiler should
> I use (free one)? Is it easy to use Ada without runtime (that depends on
> operating system api)? What language features will I miss? Is there a
> ready to use bare metal RTS, or I need to build my own?

I have a tool chain built, apart from x86_64-elf-gdb as apparently this has
never been supported. So I'll be using the system one. I can provide you
with it and the basics for a zero footprint runtime.