Re: GNAT ARM on Mac OS X?

[Jerry Petrey <gpetrey@earthlink.net>]

On 11/8/2014 1:17 PM, Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> On 11/08/2014 12:51 PM, Jerry Petrey wrote:
>>
>> Great work Simon!  It takes a while to get everything correct for a different
>> board but it is a lot of fun and you learn a few things in the process.  Ada and
>> the ARM Cortex makes a powerful combination.
>
> Just out of curiosity, what do you people use these ARM boards for?
>


Hi Jeff,

I am mostly interested in using the ARM boards for robotics projects but 
they are well suited for any type of control applications.  They have a 
lot of processing power and lots of on-chip peripherals and teamed up 
with a powerful language like Ada they offer a ton of potential.
Right now I am just having fun getting Ada running on many different 
M3/M4 processor boards and learning more about the ARM architecture in 
the process.  There is a lot of support for the peripherals in C but not 
in Ada so I am implementing what I need in Ada.  It is a great way to 
really understand the details rather than just use some existing 
library.  There are billions of these processors in use already and ARM 
predicts there will be 50 billion by 2020.  I think Ada needs to be on 
that bandwagon!

Jerry