From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3025dd6d917b499c X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.66.88.200 with SMTP id bi8mr4684457pab.27.1349848343094; Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:52:23 -0700 (PDT) Path: t10ni23659199pbh.0!nntp.google.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.flashnewsgroups.com-b7.4zTQh5tI3A!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada, the best language with the not-so-best tool chain References: <38af7fb8-b0a4-4a31-87aa-b7b698cc89c3@googlegroups.com> <85k3v0jqj0.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <5df9e216-b808-419e-91ac-19b7fe7dc153@googlegroups.com> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 01:52:21 -0400 Message-ID: <857gqyg9gq.fsf@stephe-leake.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cXIAEEvWMmfQJ0/hZtGctmoZ3YI= MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@flashnewsgroups.com Organization: FlashNewsgroups.com X-Trace: c800950750d16e029e66112258 X-Received-Bytes: 1426 Content-Type: text/plain Date: 2012-10-10T01:52:21-04:00 List-Id: Patrick writes: > I don't think that GNAT GPL supports any bare metal boards, no ? (i.e > Luminary Micro) It depends on what you mean by "supports". > At present it requires a posix OS underneath. It is easy to port to such a platform, yes. But when you are say you want to use a "bareboard" system, then this is what you are signing up for; implementing the functionality required for the GNAT runtime. Or a subset of it, more likely. Which raises the question; why insist on "bareboard", instead of a well supported OS that does what you need? -- -- Stephe