From: snarflemike@yahoo.com (Mike Silva)
Subject: Re: Is it possible to build an Ada cross-compiler for an 8-bit embedded target now that gcc 3.X has support for Ada?
Date: 14 Nov 2003 10:59:24 -0800
Date: 2003-11-14T10:59:24-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20619edc.0311141059.3db2de83@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bp28mb$1iodo4$1@ID-69815.news.uni-berlin.de
Peter Amey <peter.amey@praxis-cs.co.uk> wrote in message news:<bp28mb$1iodo4$1@ID-69815.news.uni-berlin.de>...
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> The biggest problem with this approach in general is the size of the
> run-time library you need to support all of Ada (esp. tasking, exception
> handling etc.) and writing such a library for a small processor. We
> have had some success in avoiding these problems by using SPARK as the
> design language. This gives several benefits:
That's a very interesting approach to the problem! SPARK Ravenscar
would be an obvious and excellent next step, it seems.
I wonder what percentage of 8 and 16 bit software uses tasks?
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-13 19:50 Is it possible to build an Ada cross-compiler for an 8-bit embedded target now that gcc 3.X has support for Ada? Peter Milliken
2003-11-13 21:02 ` Peter Milliken
2003-11-14 9:53 ` Peter Amey
2003-11-14 18:59 ` Mike Silva [this message]
2003-11-14 19:52 ` Martin Dowie
2003-11-17 21:57 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-11-18 16:03 ` Stephen Leake
2003-11-18 20:17 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-11-18 22:10 ` Stephen Leake
2003-11-19 20:12 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-11-19 22:23 ` Chad R. Meiners
2003-11-18 19:55 ` Peter Milliken
2003-11-18 20:11 ` Randy Brukardt
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