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: 103376,9b30240b5a381bbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-26 00:38:38 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.airnews.net!cabal12.airnews.net!cabal2.airnews.net!news-f.iadfw.net!usenet From: "John R. Strohm" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board? Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 02:12:06 -0500 Organization: Airnews.net! at Internet America Message-ID: <3EB0B6E79C9D6EFC.D3BCBB3CBA74EE5E.BEE240D7DC6DB7D0@lp.airnews.net> X-Orig-Message-ID: References: <5ee5b646.0208191613.21291d5@posting.google.com> <7vptwccqfs.fsf@vlinux.voxelvision.no> <7vlm70cqcz.fsf@vlinux.voxelvision.no> <5ee5b646.0208211132.6c283ef0@posting.google.com> Abuse-Reports-To: abuse at airmail.net to report improper postings NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library1-aux.airnews.net NNTP-Posting-Time: Mon Aug 26 02:36:52 2002 NNTP-Posting-Host: !]dD/1k-Vlq9lU" (Encoded at Airnews!) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28406 Date: 2002-08-26T02:12:06-05:00 List-Id: Robert, where would I find a writeup on what is involved in retargeting GNAT? Is it just a matter of doing a GCC target (i.e., writing the machine description files and the necessary gcc runtime support)? Are there GNAT runtime routines that must be rebuilt? What about executive support? "Robert Dewar" wrote in message news:5ee5b646.0208211132.6c283ef0@posting.google.com... > Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen wrote in message news:<7vlm70cqcz.fsf@vlinux.voxelvision.no>... > > > And preferably pay up front for the develoment of the compiler.... OK > > > strategy if you sell few expensive development systems, probably not a > > > good strategy to penetrate the mass market. > > Not necessarily, ACT has developed many ports of GNAT at our expense, but > only when we know there is a real market out there (well a couple of times > we have skipped that step and got burned). > > Indeed we are not trying to "penetrate the mass market". That's not our > business area. Our expertise is in providing high level support from high > level competent engineers. We don't see that as scaling to a mass market. > > The world seems full of people who are happy to spend lots > of energy in trying to get Ada Core to move in that direction, but sadly > none of these people seem willing to spend their own energy persuing a > market that they are sure we are missing! > > Robert Dewar > Ada Core Techonologies