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From: snarflemike@yahoo.com (Mike Silva)
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Subject: Re: Is it possible to build an Ada cross-compiler for an 8-bit
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Peter Amey <peter.amey@praxis-cs.co.uk> wrote in message news:<bp28mb$1iodo4$1@ID-69815.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> 
> 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?