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Subject: Re: Ada, the best language with the not-so-best tool chain
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On Monday, December 17, 2012 10:33:47 AM UTC-6, Brian Drummond wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:36:27 +0400, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
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> > Brian Drummond wrote:
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> >> Yes. Bare metal programming on a Z80 is easy. Ditto PIC, AVR, etc etc,
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> >> and of these only the AVR has an Ada toolchain. It may not be mature
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> >> but it is very usable.
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> > I hope you'll get a good offer soon.  (Even if more Ada compiler targets
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> > is a good thing.)
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> Been playing... It turns out that msp-gcc builds remarkably easy with Ada 
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> enabled, it only needed one additional patch to build gnattools without 
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> building libada...
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> Next I stole the AVR-Ada RTS and tried building it with minimal changes 
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> for just one family of MSP430 processor. 
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> Now I *really* don't know what I am doing with setting up project files, 
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> so there is a horrid sequence of commands to build an executable with 
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> these tools...
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> but I have a "port" of the AVR "blinky" example running away on an MSP430!
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> It actually tried to work first time, except that I didn't know that the 
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> watchdog timer is enabled by default on an MSP...
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> I have a feeling that the difficult part will be packaging all the 
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> peripherals for 450 different processor models...
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> Don't know if there will be any interest in Ada on the MSP430?
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> - Brian

Nicely done!