Re: Help with embedded hardware/software platform selection for ADA

[Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>]

On 02/07/2013 14:02, in article 17nisiivtnz9r.190krltf7ol64$.dlg@40tude.net,
"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:

> On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 11:44:58 +0100, Bill Findlay wrote:
> 
>> On 02/07/2013 09:26, in article
>> 1xjmrhqaru3w2$.19h39u551pro1$.dlg@40tude.net, "Dmitry A. Kazakov"
>> <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
>>  
>>> Since there is no Ada for ARM ...
>> 
>> That needs qualification, Dmitry.
>> GNAT is certainly available for ARM under Raspbian
>> (Debian Wheezy for the Raspberry Pi).
> 
> I didn't know, interesting, though pretty much useless, I guess.

Well it is not useless to me, as my KDF9 emulator, compiled on an Rpi, now
runs in a web service hosted by an RPi.

> On the second thought, there seem to exist Raspberry Pi Emulators:
> 
> http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=2961
> http://cubik-tech.blogspot.de/2013/02/raspberry-pi-emulation-on-windows.html
> http://ediy.com.my/index.php/blog/item/52-virtualbox-raspberry-pi-emulator
> 
> Provided the virtual machine memory set to 1-2GB one could try to use the
> native ARM compiler there. Did anybody tried that?

I have no knowledge of that.

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