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,b00d07477115903e,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-03-24 13:30:30 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews2.google.com!not-for-mail From: googlegroups.999.rohanuk@spamgourmet.com (Rohan) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Ada runtime and Linux Kernel Module Date: 24 Mar 2004 13:30:30 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.158.237.19 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1080163830 25959 127.0.0.1 (24 Mar 2004 21:30:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 21:30:30 +0000 (UTC) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6492 Date: 2004-03-24T13:30:30-08:00 List-Id: Hello! I am in the very early stages of looking at writing a Linux kernel module in ada for a University project. I have looked around and it seems to be possible, if tricky. The Big Online Book of Linux Ada Programming (http://www.vaxxine.com/pegasoft/homes/16.html) has some information, and I have a test module written based on the example code there. Any module would need to avoid anything which used the ada runtime. There are references to pragma no_run_time but I have found that as long as I stear clear of using anything that requres the runtime there is no problem even without the pragma. However I would quite like to use exceptions and allocate veriables from the heap. The BOBOLAP states: "If you have the time, you can always copy some of the standard Ada packages to a separate directory and compile them into your GNORT project, effectively creating your own small, custom run-time system." I have had a play around trying to do this, but am somewhat stumbling in the dark. Does anybody have any pointers to how I go about this? Or indeed any example ADA linux module code! Thanks Rohan