Re: Ada for the next bare metal project?

[brbarkstrom@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 5:29:16 AM UTC-5, Frédéric Praca wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 08:40:43 -0800, droiddermo 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?
> 
> If you don't want to build your own RTS, you could use :
> - MaRTEOS http://marte.unican.es/ which is an Ada RTOS
> - RTEMS https://www.rtems.org/ which is a C RTOS where you can use Ada to 
> develop applications
> 
> The first one is quite easy to setup while the second was last time I 
> tested it more difficult to use with Ada.
> 
> Hope it helps
> 
> Fred

You could just install the Ubuntu Linux non-desktop OS, followed by
GNAT.  At that point, you don't need an RTS, as far as I can tell.
I did that with an Intel Atom.  Appears to work fine.

Bruce B.