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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,cec20777e0d41ea0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-23 14:26:08 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!cyclone2.usenetserver.com!news-out.usenetserver.com!easynews!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3A96E37D.1CE0E2DF@west.raytheon.com> From: Jerry Petrey <"jdpetrey"@west.raytheon.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en]C-CCK-MCD CSC;Raytheon (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Increased Interest In Ada? References: <3A82EFA2.C8756B09@acm.org> <970ma1$1l7$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <972uon$729@news.kvaerner.com> <975uv4$qbe$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 15:26:05 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.24.83.38 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 982967158 147.24.83.38 (Fri, 23 Feb 2001 16:25:58 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 16:25:58 CST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5499 Date: 2001-02-23T15:26:05-07:00 List-Id: 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Jerry Petrey -- Senior Principal Systems Engineer - Navigation, Guidance, & Control -- Raytheon Missile Systems - Member Team Ada & Team Forth -- NOTE: please remove in email address to reply -----------------------------------------------------------------------------