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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: a new language, designed for safety !
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 22:09:17 +0000 (UTC)
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Date: 2014-06-10T22:09:17+00:00
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Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:

> I'm aware of how much trouble you have had trying to get bare metal
> ARM and bare metal PIC32 working because I looked at what you had
> done a year or two ago. According to your comments and logs at the
> time, it all seemed to be very fragile and prone to breaking in
> various random ways with each new version of GNAT.

>From my experiments, GNAT is the only GCC front end that cannot build for
all of GCC's targets, standalone or with runtime.

> There's also the lack of public versions of Ada (or any Ada version
> at all) for various non-mainstream platforms. For example, about a
> year ago, I evaluated the state of gcc (including Ada) for VMS in the
> public gcc kits. (ACT did a port of gcc to VMS for it's customers).

I don't know if all the bits for VMS are in the FAF version.

> There's also the lack of Ada for microcontroller platforms other than
> ARM (ACT supplied) and AVR (ACT/third party supplied). Just think of
> all the stuff Farnell sells which doesn't have Ada compiler target

I doubt there's enough interest tbh, even though there should be. I can
count the number of people who have contacted me about it on 2 hands.

> support, but does have C compiler target support. (I mention Farnell
> because your website says you are in Leeds.)
 I seriously doubt they would be interested. All these people care about is
C.

> To stop you wasting your time, I only discussed it in comp.lang.ada in
> the aftermath of the Heartbleed fiasco although I made some specific
> suggestions in c.l.a.

Already read it.