Re: Would this be logical for embedded hardware?

[Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>]

On 12-06-29 18:37 , Patrick wrote:
> Hi Jeffery
>>
>> This sounds like what was commonly heard about Ada-83 tasking: it won't be fast
>> enough, or will use too much memory/CPU/whatever, so we won't use it and will
>> write a cyclic executive instead. Those who actually used tasks usually found
>> them that they worked fine, and resulted in a much simpler design as well. So
>> don't write off something that would be "fine" without substantiation.
>>
> I really wasn't trying to trash Ada in anyway
>
>>
>> I've worked on embedded systems like this (multiple networked 32-bit
>> processors), but they were all developed in Ada. I don't see why you couldn't
>> use Ada for all the processors in your system, too. And you could look into
>> SoftTech's compiler that generates C if you have difficulty finding an Ada
>> compiler targeting your processor of choice.
>
> I couldn't actually find a company called SoftTech that had compilers. This  name is used by many companies.
>
> Could you point me to their site?

It's SofCheck, but they merged with AdaCore recently. The compiler is, 
or was, AdaMagic, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdaMagic. Hopefully it is 
still available...

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