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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board?
Date: 19 Aug 2002 17:13:25 -0700
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Dmitry A.Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message news:<ajqde0$1d7l8m$1@ID-77047.news.dfncis.de>...
> [ I do not know the background, but for people outside, like me, the 
> situation with Ada for ARM looks indeed very strange. AFAIK, customers are 
> actively starting to use ARM as a new embedded platform. Noticeably that 
> many are ready to drop old code to have a TCP/IP option etc. So it is 
> really a good time to say - look we have something better (Ada) for you. 
> But ... ]


What's strange? If we developed ports of GNAT everytime
someone said to us: "You really should develop a port of
GNAT for xxxx, I am sure people would be ready to buy
that product," we would have GNAT ports for all sorts of
strange machines and environmemts, but very few actual
customers for these targets :-)

The situation with ARM is no different from any other GNAT
target, there will be an Ada Core Technologies port of GNAT
to the ARM if and only if there is sufficient commercial
interest to provide the necessary funding for the technical
work involved.

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Tecnologies