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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,6f9c8d702f3156f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-12 15:13:44 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out.nuthinbutnews.com!propagator2-austin!propagator!feed2.newsfeeds.com!newsfeeds.com!news-in-austin.nuthinbutnews.com!psiuk-p2!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT for Ada_OS Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 17:35:43 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9nokfg$msv$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <9nnt2q$bh$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1000330544 23455 136.170.200.133 (12 Sep 2001 21:35:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Sep 2001 21:35:44 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13061 Date: 2001-09-12T21:35:44+00:00 List-Id: Just to answer one of my own questions..... http://www.geocities.com/mvea/bootstrap.htm MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Marin David Condic" wrote in message news:9nnt2q$bh$1@nh.pace.co.uk... > Don't know that it needs to be the "Windows" GNAT, but if you're targeting a > PC platform as the initial hardware, that's a pretty natural choice. > > One thing to do would be to collect URLs for all the relevant resources so > that anyone who wants to be a "player" can get the tools loaded onto their > machine. (Don't know what advice to give to those who want to be "player > haters" :-)Maybe you could post here whatever you've got so far? > > The trick would be to build some kind of initial little test program that > did just enough to convince onesself that it was in memory and cycling & > establish all of the procedures and "tricks" necessary to get that program > compiled & onto a floppy such that the hardware would boot it. Typically, > those are the mystifying parts. After that, its just writing more and more > code until you have an OS. Not much of a problem with that, eh? :-) > > MDC > -- > Marin David Condic > Senior Software Engineer > Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com > Enabling the digital revolution > e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com > Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ > > > "M. A. Alves" wrote in message > news:mailman.1000305672.12181.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org... > > Looking for GNORT, I found ACT's GNAT Pro Bare Board. Enquirying about > > this, I was told to "use the GNAT public version on Windows and > > use the No_Run_Time pragma". > > > > (I remind what was "needed" was an Ada compiler emiting bootable code > > independent from any preexisting OS running. To make the Ada Loader / OS.) > > > > If that really works, we're in business ;-) > > > > But must it be the _Windows_ GNAT? Strange. > > > > * > > > > Hope everybody out there is reasonably safe from the forces of darkness. > > > > -- > > , > > M A R I O data miner, LIACC, room 221 tel 351+226078830, ext 121 > > A M A D O Rua Campo Alegre, 823 fax 351+226003654 > > A L V E S P-4150 PORTO, Portugal mob 351+939354002 > > > > > > > >