From: dewarr@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Win CE target
Date: 1998/09/20
Date: 1998-09-20T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6u2q0a$r9c$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3604A4C6.8C4@erols.com
In article <3604A4C6.8C4@erols.com>,
whitaker@erols.com wrote:
> Is there such a thing as an Ada 95 Win CE target. Does it make sense?
> I have never seen, touched or smelled a Win CE so I have no idea if it
> is possible or desirable.
>
> Whitaker
Well first, Win CE is available for multiple architectures,
so you are talking about a family of ports rather than a
single port (it is much like asking if there is an Ada 95
Unix target).
The targets for Win CE are all familiar ones (e.g. x86)
so it certainly would not be impossible to create a Win CE
port. As with other Microsoft products, probably the biggest
problem would be Microsoft's annoying habit of keeping
things secret (e.g. NT is the only kernel based system where
the kernel interface is secret, and the debugging formats
are secret). Still people have (with effort!) managed to
figure out many of the details for NT, and probably Win CE
would be no worse.
Probably the most practical approach is to try a GNAT port.
We have had no customer interest in such a port so we have
not investigated this, and as far as we know, no one else
has worked on a GNAT Win CE port.
Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-09-20 0:00 Win CE target William A Whitaker
1998-09-20 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-20 0:00 ` dewarr [this message]
1998-09-20 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-09-21 0:00 ` dennison
1998-09-21 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-28 0:00 ` Ada --> C Translation, was: " Stefan Helfert
1998-09-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1998-10-10 0:00 ` Dr Amirez
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-10 0:00 ` Dr Amirez
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Dr Amirez
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-10-13 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
1998-10-12 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-10-14 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-14 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-12 0:00 ` PC
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Operating System in Ada (was Ada --> C Translation) Larry Kilgallen
1998-10-12 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-13 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-10-14 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-21 0:00 ` Van Snyder
1998-10-22 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Ada --> C Translation, was: Win CE target Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-14 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Tasking/blocking system calls (was: Ada --> C Translation) Mats Weber
1998-09-29 0:00 ` Ada --> C Translation, was: Win CE target Tucker Taft
1998-09-30 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-23 0:00 ` falis
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