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From: dewarr@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Win CE target
Date: 1998/09/20
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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.

Most certainly a port of Ada to Win CE is possible,
practical, and desirable! I would also like to see a GNAT
port for the Palm Pilot, which is also possible, practical
and desirable. Again with PP, you run into annoying
proprietary secrecy (the PP license, which supposedly you
agree to by just opening your PP says that you recognize
that the user interface of the PP is a valuable trade
secret of 3COM which you will not disclose to any
unauthorized third party :-)

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies


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