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,a30a877db63b60c0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!meganewsservers.com!feeder2.on.meganewsservers.com!feed.cgocable.net!read1.cgocable.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Hello World 217Kb ? References: <41a377ea$0$25071$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> <41a3abd4$0$30691$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> <41AAD53F.3060408@mailinator.com> <41b5c608$0$13482$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> <41b6b66c$0$13458$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> In-Reply-To: <41b6b66c$0$13458$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 06:39:04 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.150.168.167 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cogeco.ca X-Trace: read1.cgocable.net 1102505889 24.150.168.167 (Wed, 08 Dec 2004 06:38:09 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 06:38:09 EST Organization: Cogeco Cable Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6839 Date: 2004-12-08T06:39:04-05:00 List-Id: Adrien Plisson wrote: > Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote: > >> I modified GNAT's runtime to work with the microkernal that I'm >> using. > > interresting. which microkernel are you using ? I wanted something rather light weight, and open sourced of course. So I settled on RTMK (Johan Rydberg), since it seems to address both. See http://rtmk.sourceforge.net. Its not actively being developed (stopped in 2002), version 0.2, but if you don't provoke it with bad API calls, it doesn't panic ;-) I now have 3 modules up and running in Ada, and this includes name service, console and IDE driver (the console driver is still largely C). I also spent considerable time building a binding to rtmk, which is strongly typed. >> The GNAT RTL hack only took a >> about 5 weeknights to get going. ;-) > > do you mean that the GNAT RTL is well designed ? or that you worked > "quick and dirty" ? Naw, I did the quick and dirty thing. The problem of course is that the GNAT RTL must not go looking for POSIX services that aren't there. So there were a few C API calls, that I had to divert, or otherwise neutre ;-) I don't have tasking or protected types, but I seem to have most of everything else to work with. This is a refreshing change from pragma No_Run_Time!!! -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg