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: 103376,8295d69277f1696c,start X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.125.201 with SMTP id ms9mr9118688pbb.3.1336708620702; Thu, 10 May 2012 20:57:00 -0700 (PDT) Path: pr3ni12278pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Patrick Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: understanding runtime support Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 20:49:07 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <28695516.0.1336708147839.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcqw9> NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.51.111.153 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1336708620 17990 127.0.0.1 (11 May 2012 03:57:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 03:57:00 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=70.51.111.153; posting-account=cUi90woAAADTaOISowbbHM8GUD0-opJO User-Agent: G2/1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-05-10T20:49:07-07:00 List-Id: I've been studying Ada for about 6 months now and I am managing on the desk= top. I wanted to start a new embedded project. I had assumed that full Ada = would be supported on all the targets GCC is capable of targeting, now I am= not so sure. It's my understanding that with a C program, main must be called main becau= se the compiler is depending on this name to create an entry point and that= the compiler can insert ASM code to bootstrap an embedded C program. I am = also assuming that gcc inserts a runtime for c and is capable of inserting = for all the supported targets. What is the situation with Ada? I was hoping to target various M68K related= architectures, ARM and AVR. I read a recent thread about "Tasking on GNATAVR" and it does not look like= there is an officially supported avr runtime. I haven't found anything in = the open source world on M68K support. It looks like Gnat Pro supports ARM = but does the GPL version support it? I am pretty mixed up, please help me find the resources to figure out what = is supported-Patrick