Re: Low-level programming in Ada?

[Michael Erdmann <michael.erdmann@snafu.de>]

On Wed, 07 Aug 2013 21:39:58 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:

> I'm wondering if anyone can suggest a reference (preferably online)
> about low-level programming (e.g. for operating system implementation)
> in Ada.  Not about the language itself, but examples of dealing with
> machine addresses, device registers, page tables, memory management,
> etc., preferably without dropping to assembler more than a tiny bit.
> 
May be you should have a look at florist:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Platform/POSIX
http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~baker/florist.html

For the assembler stuff; if you really need it refer to the GNAT 
manual and what what is written in the gnuasm manual; e.g. 

http://tigcc.ticalc.org/doc/gnuasm.html



/Michael


> This isn't for a specific project or anything like that.  It's just
> general interest in how to do this stuff that's traditionally the domain
> of C.
> 
> Thanks.