Re: Increased Interest In Ada?

[Jerry Petrey <"jdpetrey<NOSPAM>"@west.raytheon.com>]

Hans-Olof Danielsson wrote:
> 
> Another option is the Lego Mindstorm robotics kit.
> 
> The robotics contains a Hitachi H8 microcontroller which is supported by the
> latest GCC version. Recently there was a posting on the *crossgcc* list
> regarding building a C cross compiler for H8 with GNU/Linux as host , so
> there is at least a GCC-based C cross compilor.
> 
> When GNAT moves to GCC common source tree ( according to earlier posting on
> this cla-list, that is planed for GCC 3.1 ) it shouldn�t be to difficult to
> build a GNAT cross compiler for H8. It might be equaly easy ( or difficult )
> with GCC 2.81 ( if it supports H8 ) used for GNAT 3.13p.
> 
> The next step would then be to build a binding to the robotic ROM image,
> making it possible to control the robot from Ada.
> 
> HOD
> 


There is a GNAT Ada interface for the Mindstorms kit
available at:

http://www.usafa.af.mil/dfcs/adamindstorms.htm

It is not complete but a nice start.

Jerry
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