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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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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)
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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