Re: Ada and QNX

[Armin Steinhoff <Armin@Steinhoff_de>]

In article <8r29q0$q6j$1@pyrite.mv.net>, "Jeff says...
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>"Armin Steinhoff" <Armin@Steinhoff_de> wrote in message
>news:8r25kg0ujl@drn.newsguy.com...
>> In article <8r1uc0$dve$1@pyrite.mv.net>, "Jeff says...
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>> >There is not really a full stable GCC port to QNX available so a GNAT
>> >port would probably need to finish/clean that up first....
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>> That's probably just your opinion ... you can't have any deeper
>> experiences with QRTP.
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>Hmm..Well I admit that I have not specific experience in the area but
>my response was based on a search of the GCC archives for QNX info and
>then looking at this FAQ (About a year old)
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>http://www.schoenbrun.com/mba/faq.htm#L48

Ahh ... that FAQ is completely useless for QRTP ... it is a FAQ for QNX4 :-)

>It save you having to click it says
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>48) Is GCC available?
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>GCC is available, at following URL http://www.teaser.fr/~jcmichot/gcc This
>release contain GCC 2.7.2 and G++ compiler. You need WatcomC lib & linker to
>use this release of gcc.

That gcc is a private port from Jean Michot ... and it is also targeting 
QNX4 :-))

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>In general, once developers start using Watcom C/C++, demand for GCC isn't
>as high. Watcom provides a very good, high quality C and C++ development
>environment.

Yes ... but Watcom C++ is not available for QRTP!

>So, when I say it is not stable what I mean is it is not in the baseline GCC
>tree. It is only supported by an individual and it requires non GNU libs and
>>linkers...I am not saying this is impossible to get working
>now with GNAT but it certainly is likely to raise the bar.
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>> AFAIK ... the gcc sources are not yet available for QRTP, so you can't
>> build GNAT yet.
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>> >I do not know of any other Ada 95 ports to that OS either.
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>> Really ?  What ports to so called 'fine RTOSes' do you have in mind ??
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>vxWorks (Tornado) has Ada 95 support from ACT (GNAT), Rational, OC Systems,
>Green Hills.
>LynxOS has Ada 95 support from ACT, Rational and probably others
>Not sure of the state of it but RTLinux from Zentropix was working with ACT
>for integration of GNAT into their RTLinux Product.
>There is GNAT support for RTEMS.
>Concurrent Computer Corp has what appears to be a nice POSIX compliant RT
>Unix based OS with Ada 95 support fully integrated into their tools.
>
>There are many others. We can certainly debate the "fineness" of these other
>RTOSs against QNX but somewhere in the mix I think you will find an OS that
>>certainly competes.

Sure ... IMHO Lynx (BlueCat) is direct comparable with QRTP (QNX/Neutrino)

>Having said all of that with QNX being now somewhat free it would be cool if
>there was a GNAT port so since it is just my opionion that it would be
>>difficult to do a port perhaps you could pull one together.

As I mentioned before ... the gcc/qcc sources are not yet available for QRTP.

> I'd love to start playing with it on monday. Let me know what
>time I can download it.

You can download it since several days :-)

Regards

Armin

PS :  Where are the sources of the 'OPEN SOURCE' QRTP ??