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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fd9a8f91bb89a8d2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-13 13:02:27 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news1.optus.net.au!optus!snewsf0.syd.ops.aspac.uu.net!nnrp1.ozemail.com.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Peter Milliken" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: Is it possible to build an Ada cross-compiler for an 8-bit embedded target now that gcc 3.X has support for Ada? X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4927.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4927.1200 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 08:02:26 +1100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.15.64.31 X-Trace: nnrp1.ozemail.com.au 1068757346 203.15.64.31 (Fri, 14 Nov 2003 08:02:26 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 08:02:26 EST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2460 Date: 2003-11-14T08:02:26+11:00 List-Id: I just came across Rolf's porting efforts for getting Ada/gnat runing on an AVR processor (http://sourceforge.net/projects/avr-ada/) - so the question is answered. It is not straight forward or easy at all. Looks like I'll have to wait even longer before I can get a vehicle that will help convince management............ "Peter Milliken" wrote in message news:zgRsb.200$co2.10332@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au... > Subject pretty much says it all. > > Now that you can build an Ada compiler using gcc 3.X (well, according to the > build instructions of gcc 3.x :-)), I began to wonder whether it was > possible to build a cross-compiler for an 8-bit target processor. The 8-bit > processor family in question is already supported by gcc (I believe). > > When I say "possible", I just mean "follow the cross-compiling instructions > and out pops an Ada compiler" - I don't mean, "spend months of work patching > various files and then you might have an Ada compiler" :-) > > I would dearly like to convince some managers here that Ada is a reasonable > alternative to C/C++ for product development. I don't mind spending a lot of > my own time re-writing my current C code in Ada to help prove the point, but > I need the tools to at least contemplate giving it a go :-). > > The cross-compiler would be built and run on a Windoze box (just answering > (one of) the obvious questions :-)). > > Thanks > Peter > > > > >