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,cae7c2b10dc9e1dd,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.glorb.com!news-feed01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net!nntp.frontiernet.net!nntp.giganews.com.MISMATCH!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.adelphia.com!news.adelphia.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 09:49:20 -0500 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: "Victor B. Putz" Subject: 16-bit Ada for MS-DOS? User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 09:49:20 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.53.89.52 X-Trace: sv3-Q0f/ClZu1gDC51aAGjXa4qnI+SjT/BcN1MbcFkffP/vqL37Xd4Kqmnbnx6lvEaeWgBhy003pBu3bM3M!1debZ0yJM4pKM3P8F6QsqcWwpUilCNWCP/OFPFXMssTfD8+Ez3Kf4qq73KBZCj1kgrrJC+zofwOb!wxlRc2IoWA== X-Complaints-To: abuse@adelphia.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: copyright@adelphia.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:583 Date: 2004-05-14T09:49:20-05:00 List-Id: Here's a curious question. I'm working with some students writing small tasks for a microsatellite in an aeronautical engineering course. Their Computer Science curriculum has taught them only Ada (apart from a brief survey of four different languages (C, Java, Scheme, Prolog) in a "paradigms" course). The platform in use is based on a Nec V53 chip running a proprietary OS, so the development environment is 16-bit C (or C++), compiled in small memory model using MS Visual C++ version "Old" (the command-line compiler is version 8.00c, from 1993 or so), and linked with several small-model libraries. I'm not sure I could even get the change approved if there WAS a solution, but is there a way to compile Ada for 16-bit C and linkable with MS small-memory-model C libraries? I've looked a bit at gnat and GCC, but I can't see how to specify a target like that... -->VPutz