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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,971598a9377a949a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Rakesh Malhotra Subject: Re: CPU recommendations from an Ada perspective? Date: 1999/11/05 Message-ID: <38233797.51395712@pop.safetran.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 544936623 Distribution: world Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Complaints-To: abuse@gte.net X-Trace: /bCCZDCk9h0l0sjwRI2tfvCBG99xBqQ6caY1rPSz3rmgjfnQU9Hg7W/iv8BVdleIH9YNmiea1aya!cwxfmhB8V9dMa/4HJc7mzIA25cXl+gFPit43mcm9kgYQJtn16OTzKSRyn/UOUWSJ0v5OIxE= MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 20:01:15 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Mike I am a little unclear as to what the questions is here - are you asking about 32 bit CPUs or Ada support for these CPUs ? I'll try and answer both. I've been developing embedded applications using 32 bit CPUs for many years. The CPUs have been Motorola ones - 68302, 68332, 68030 and 68360. All of them are 32 bit CPUs. I have used Ada and C,C++ with all these CPUs and have not had any trouble with Ada support on them. There are quite a few Ada compiler vendors who support these CPUs. And Ada itself is excellent as a programming language. (A bit off topic) In fact, I am presently working on an embedded box which has 1 68332 and 4 68302's and we are implementing the software in C, C++, proprietary RTOS. In spite of using PC-Lint on our code it is interesting to note that we have to find many bugs at runtime - most of these bugs just would not have happened if Ada had been used. (Not only would the bugs not be there but the overall software would be better designed - we do use a lot of Ada here, just that this project was a pre-existing product already done in C). I have also used a couple of Intel CPUs (8085, 8086, 8088, 80186 - not with Ada) but my personal preference is for the Motorola ones. -- Rakesh Opinions expressed are personal ones. Mike Silva wrote: > > I'm reluctant to ask this question because it's so vague at this point, but > my curiosity has won out. I'd like to hear any recommendations for (or > against) those 32 bit CPU families which are supported by good Ada tools. > [snip] > Mike