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On Tuesday, May 15, 2012 7:55:55 AM UTC-7, Lucretia wrote:
> If you went bare metal compiler, you would need to define what you needed=
 in the runtime. Do you really need tasking? Do you really need full except=
ion handling? If not, you can just have local exceptions which will call la=
st_chance_handler anytime something goes wrong, in that procedure, you can =
do whatever you like, drop into remote gdb, dump the regs over serial, etc.
>=20
> Luke.
IMO having simple tasking (Ravenscar) and suitable timing (delay, delay unt=
il) would be enough for a great many embedded chores.  Everything else coul=
d build on that core.

I'm guessing that this is pretty much what the Lego Mindstorms port has, bu=
t I haven't looked.