Re: Tiva + Ada

["Rego, P." <pvrego@gmail.com>]

On Thursday, February 13, 2014 6:23:49 PM UTC-3, Luke A. Guest wrote:
> I asked which is you were on because if you were on 64 bit linux I could
> easily package up the latest compiler, I.e 4.9.0

But no problem in using Linux 64bit, so I can use a virtual machine.

> The patch in tamp doesn't apply cleanly anymore. I have a patched GCC which
> allows me, with a bit of fiddling, to build a cross compiler with gnattools
> without rts.

ok

> You can use any prebuilt compiler eg arm-Linux and just redirect it using
> the --RTS flag.
> As for getting some niceties of the rts on bare metal, it works the same
> for all platforms, start with a system.ads and the basic packages providing
> compiler intrinsics, then you can add last_chance_handler for local
> exceptions, then memset. Etc, etc which allows you to copy objects about.
> If you want to return in constrained objects you need to add a simple
> secondary stack, this can be say 4-8kb allocated in the linker script and
> referenced in the secsta.adb.
> If you want more then you just enable it in the restrictions pragma use it
> and wait for the compiler to tell you what's missing.

I think it will be clearer to me when I start building it.