From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
Subject: Re: Newcomers to comp.lang.ada: welcome and how did you end up here ?
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 21:38:22 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2014-10-10T21:38:22+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2064812074434669488.767131laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m19d3p$c3k$1@dont-email.me
Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>> I'm also trying to build a cross-compiler for Nintendo DS, it's a bit
>> less smooth but I haven't spent much time on it yet. Is it also doomed?
>>
>
> I strongly recommend you follow Luke's link; he's spent quite a bit
> of effort over the years on this and he's encountered a good range
> of problems (there was a time when I was following Luke's work
> closely).
>
Cheers, I have not touched it for a while. I was going try to maintain a
GCC tree but I think it's going to easier to maintain patches still. I have
some tiny patches which allow you to bud a gnat cross compiler with tools
on the same vein as a c cross compiler. It's not great. It adds a new
required flag to turn off building of the runtime. I need to rebook at it.
Once my new site is ready I'll be going back to old projects, this one
included.
> The problem is that even to myself (who _wants_ to use Ada) the
> language is great but the compiler situation is very flaky especially
Certainly is.
> I can only imagine how this looks to a newcomer to Ada especially as
> I use C for my embedded projects even when the desire is to use Ada.
It's pretty dire really, a language designed for embedded is a bitch to get
working yet a language designed for education can do it easily, I'm talking
pascal here.
> It's experiences like that which make we wonder if we need some kind
> of new half-way language between C and Ada which is easy to bring up
> on a new target and while not been as type-safe as Ada would be much
> better than C.
It's this kind of thing that makes me consider developing a new language
derived from Asa bit simplified and just made easier to build.
Luke
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2014-10-06 22:42 Newcomers to comp.lang.ada: welcome and how did you end up here ? Simon Clubley
2014-10-06 23:18 ` brbarkstrom
2014-10-07 8:10 ` Gour
2014-10-07 10:49 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-08 7:23 ` Gour
2014-10-08 8:35 ` Brian Drummond
2014-10-08 9:15 ` Simon Wright
2014-10-08 19:14 ` -fdump-ada-spec (was: Newcomers to comp.lang.ada: welcome and how did you end up here ?) Ludovic Brenta
2014-10-08 19:48 ` -fdump-ada-spec Simon Wright
2014-10-08 9:17 ` Newcomers to comp.lang.ada: welcome and how did you end up here ? Gour
2014-10-08 11:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-10-10 9:18 ` Gour
2014-10-08 13:33 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-07 20:06 ` Stribor40
2014-10-07 20:21 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-10-07 21:28 ` David Botton
2014-10-09 5:57 ` Dirk Craeynest
2014-10-10 0:58 ` rriehle
2014-10-08 7:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-10-09 11:58 ` Mark Carroll
2014-10-09 13:31 ` Simon Wright
2014-10-09 18:04 ` Brian Drummond
2014-10-09 20:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-10-09 18:35 ` Mark Carroll
2014-10-09 21:08 ` Simon Clubley
2014-10-10 7:28 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-10-10 9:07 ` Mark Carroll
2014-10-10 9:33 ` Björn Lundin
2014-10-10 11:41 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-10-10 13:35 ` Björn Lundin
2014-10-10 17:10 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-10-10 18:22 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-10 14:51 ` Lucretia
2014-10-10 14:28 ` Lucretia
2014-10-10 19:47 ` Simon Clubley
2014-10-10 21:38 ` Luke A. Guest [this message]
2014-10-12 10:56 ` Cross-toolchain for DS [was: Newcomers to comp.lang.ada: welcome and how did you end up here ?] Natasha Kerensikova
2014-10-12 11:40 ` Simon Clubley
2014-10-12 12:27 ` Peter Chapin
2014-10-12 19:42 ` Simon Clubley
2014-10-12 13:25 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-12 13:52 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-10-12 14:40 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-12 20:09 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-10-19 14:34 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-10-19 15:48 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-23 8:22 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-10-12 23:18 ` Lucretia
2014-10-15 9:46 ` Brian Drummond
2014-10-15 16:50 ` Lucretia
2014-10-15 9:58 ` Brian Drummond
2014-10-15 10:32 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-10-16 12:04 ` Brian Drummond
2014-10-11 10:53 ` Newcomers to comp.lang.ada: welcome and how did you end up here ? Brian Drummond
2014-10-12 1:33 ` David Botton
2014-10-12 1:25 ` David Botton
2014-10-12 14:40 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-09 19:06 ` Shark8
2014-11-04 16:28 ` Nicholas Collin Paul de Gloucester
2014-11-04 16:45 ` Barry Danforth
2014-11-04 17:18 ` David Botton
2014-10-09 12:50 ` john
2014-10-09 21:08 ` gdotone
2014-10-10 16:25 ` Stribor40
2014-10-10 17:09 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-10 17:59 ` Stribor40
2014-10-10 18:22 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-11-08 23:51 ` HerrDoktor
2014-11-09 7:44 ` Karl Stromberg
2014-11-09 9:28 ` HerrDoktor
2014-11-09 9:42 ` HerrDoktor
2014-11-09 9:59 ` Karl Stromberg
2014-11-09 10:25 ` HerrDoktor
2014-11-09 16:31 ` David Botton
2014-11-09 16:29 ` David Botton
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