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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,641660bd28dd798d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-06 12:27:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news-out.newsfeeds.com!propagator2-maxim!propagator-maxim!news-in.spamkiller.net!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!59ce1190!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CFFB7A3.178C0549@acm.org> From: Jeffrey Carter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Embedded Ada Development Tools References: <3CFBC246.7020201@worldnet.att.net> <3CFE29BB.A7D22E77@NOSPAM.visteon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 19:27:28 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.110.90 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1023391648 63.184.110.90 (Thu, 06 Jun 2002 12:27:28 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 12:27:28 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25417 Date: 2002-06-06T19:27:28+00:00 List-Id: 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. -- Jeff Carter "I fart in your general direction." Monty Python & the Holy Grail