Re: naval systems

["martin.m.dowie" <martin.m.dowie@ntlworld.com>]

> Something over ten years ago, I took an Ada training class at Texas
> Instruments.  (It was really a review for me, but I needed the review.)
One
> of the features of the class was a videotape of a Q&A session with Jean
> Ichbiah and two other Ada luminaries.
>
> Ichbiah was asked that precise question, about the size of the runtime,
and
> how it seemed that it would be too big for anything practical.
>
> His answer was that a just-about-fully-compliant Ada runtime module had
been
> written in 4K words.  Note well his choice of words:  not "could be" but
> "HAD BEEN" (emphasis added).
>
> Not long after that, I had occasion to check that answer, for the Tartan
> Labs toolset for the TI 320C30 32-bit floating point digital signal
> processor.  The Ada runtime module for that processor was, indeed, about
4K
> words.  This rather shocked my supervisor at the time; he'd just assumed
it
> would be prohibitively big and NEVER LOOKED.
>
> I don't know very many embedded systems that can't scratch up 4K words of
> code space for a runtime kernel.

From what I can gather this is the same size a non-tasking Ravenscar-profile
RTK - for tasking add another 9 or 10K, but still not exactly huge is it?