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From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
Subject: Re: Using GNAT with (or without) VxWorks
Date: 1996/07/05
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Date: 1996-07-05T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <xe1hgrn5fg7.fsf@maneki-neko.cygnus.com> Mark Eichin <eichin@cygnus.com> writes:
>Before assuming that there is no answer, have you considered asking
>Wind River Systems (wrs.com, makers of vxworks) directly? 
>
>Gcc is not hard to set up as a cross compiler, there are merely a lot
>of details.

Also, gcc already supports VxWorks on most targets.

>Gnat is probably likewise -- with the addition that you
>need to interface the ada runtime to the target threads package...

Correct.  Once you have a gcc cross-system built, making a GNAT
cross-compiler is trivial (you add "Ada" to the LANGUAGES parameter),
but you do have to deal with runtime issues.