From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,396927b48a9fb4ab,start X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.219.170 with SMTP id pp10mr5659356pbc.1.1339346162024; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 09:36:02 -0700 (PDT) Path: l9ni37988pbj.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Patrick Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Has anyone tried Minix3 + Ada? Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 08:11:24 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <2542bbf4-4e92-48cf-9290-2586ef478571@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.159.21.240 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1339346161 11035 127.0.0.1 (10 Jun 2012 16:36:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:36:01 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.159.21.240; posting-account=cUi90woAAADTaOISowbbHM8GUD0-opJO User-Agent: G2/1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 2012-06-10T08:11:24-07:00 List-Id: I am trying to learn more about how operating systems work. I am playing with Minix3. I have GCC 4.4 installed now but there is no Ada support. I might try to compile 4.7 with Ada support but I am concerned it will be futile. Assuming that I can cross compile GCC for Minix3, is there any reason Ada would not run on it? Minix3 does not have kernel threads, the threading is in userland. I am wondering if tasking will work. Minix is also billed as a high reliability, embedded OS but I can't find any examples of it being used for this. Does anyone know if this is a proper claim or a goal? Thanks for reading-Patrick