Re: Ada on embedded devices (Was: Ada on Nintendo DS ?)

[Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com>]

On Thursday, May 3, 2012 1:37:28 PM UTC+1, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> Brian Drummond wrote:
> 
> > Difficult. But IMO the more people building Ada for embedded
> > platforms, the easier it will become, if we share information and feed
> > back fixes into the process.

If you go to https://github.com/Lucretia/tamp and follow the instructions for building gcc there, you'll find that I've already done the work to get a bare metal compiler going on ARM using a custom and very bare RTS without any nasty hacks in the makefiles.
 
> I have a selection of different embedded devices here on my desk.  All
> of which I intend to program in Ada at some point.
> 
>  + MSP430 (TI Launchpad) - GCC but no Ada reported yet (according to
>    Google).

I also have one of these was aiming on using the above to play with it, as developing an OS may be too large in Ada due to the memory constraints of this chip - I don't know yet.

My aims are to play on tiny devices with the above tiny RTS, then as you get bigger, add OSes of which TAMP is aimed to be usable on small MCU's up to desktop.

Luke.