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On Thursday, May 3, 2012 1:37:28 PM UTC+1, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> Brian Drummond wrote:
>=20
> > 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 f=
or 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.
=20
> I have a selection of different embedded devices here on my desk.  All
> of which I intend to program in Ada at some point.
>=20
>  + 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 t=
his chip - I don't know yet.

My aims are to play on tiny devices with the above tiny RTS, then as you ge=
t bigger, add OSes of which TAMP is aimed to be usable on small MCU's up to=
 desktop.

Luke.