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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.224.86.200 with SMTP id t8mr1323020qal.0.1372835839830; Wed, 03 Jul 2013 00:17:19 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.29.2 with SMTP id f2mr1270221igh.12.1372835839792; Wed, 03 Jul 2013 00:17:19 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!news.glorb.com!y2no208053qax.0!news-out.google.com!f7ni623qai.0!nntp.google.com!y2no208050qax.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 00:17:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1487679987394511953.829815laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.20.190.126; posting-account=lJ3JNwoAAAAQfH3VV9vttJLkThaxtTfC NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.20.190.126 References: <31f9819e-6509-4d67-acea-4d2ba9a96c04@googlegroups.com> <4csim6j63mk4.1c54vo5v7eu8c.dlg@40tude.net> <51d280e7$0$6556$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> <1487679987394511953.829815laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <4e2cd19b-a156-43f2-8cb1-0039a3ae97bd@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Help with embedded hardware/software platform selection for ADA From: Shark8 Injection-Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 07:17:19 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:16072 Date: 2013-07-03T00:17:19-07:00 List-Id: On Tuesday, July 2, 2013 8:41:06 PM UTC-6, Luke A. Guest wrote: >=20 > The biggest problem will be lack of a secondary stack, a tiny one can be > implemented, but is it worth it? Maybe. I've been reading a bit on FORTH the past few weeks, and was wondering if i= t would be suitable for writing the Ada runtime in -- given that it's a sta= ck-based language that has words* defined in a dictionary it might work fai= rly well for implementing these second-stack requiring operations. * since a word is either a list of more words or some chunk of machine code= ; the system could be built so that porting would require only a change of = some base words (call it an assembly abstraction layer, if you will).