Re: Embedded Ada Development Tools

[Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>]

Marin David Condic wrote:
> 
> I've seen Ada for 16-bit processors, but you're point is taken. Most Ada
> implementations target 32-bit or bigger machines and while this is nice for
> some of the more grandiose projects, its not where most of the little
> commercial things live. And of course, even if it were possible to get an
> Ada compiler to target some small 8-bit processor, we'd still be stuck with
> that chicken-and-egg problem. Developers have no Ada compiler for these
> targets from which to choose, so their interests go elsewhere to what they
> can get. (Generally, C)Compiler-writers won't make something for that target
> because its a lot of work and they don't see any interested developers to
> justify the work.  Such lack of compilers leads the developers to conclude
> that it isn't possible to get Ada targeted to their processors and fuels a
> lot of the misconceptions about Ada (too slow, too big, etc.)

Anything that is targeted by an ANSI C compiler is also targeted by
Averstar's Ada-to-ANSI-C compiler.

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