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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: Gnat and Maemo
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Michael Bode wrote:
> How difficult would it be to start programming in Ada for the Maemo
> platform? I understand one would need a cross compiler to the armel
> target and the gnat runtime for armel and somehow include that in the
> (Debian based) Maemo SDK. Is anyone working on this?

Laurent Guerby and others are working on enhancing GNAT so that it
supports arm and armel as a target.  Unfortunately, only SJLJ
exception handling works at the moment and SJLJ is both very slow and
non-standard on that architecture; the EABI mandates ZCX.  See the
threads stating at:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2009-08/msg00192.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-09/msg00450.html

It is not ready for use yet.  I'm sure they'll welcome help.

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Ludovic Brenta.