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From: Dmitry A.Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board?
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 03:58:34 +0200
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Tucker Taft wrote:

> Green Hills Software supports both Ada and ARM.  You
> should certainly check with them whether they currently
> have an Ada offering certified for the ARM. 

AFAIK no, for ARM they have only C.

> Even if they
> don't, they might be able to create something.

I have no doubt about it. The question is who will pay for the banquet? 
(:-))

> Start at:  http://www.ghs.com
> 
> Note also that SofCheck, Inc. has a validated
> Ada 95 compiler that uses optimized ANSI C as its
> intermediate representation.  This has been successfully
> used for relatively quick ports to new architectures which
> have a decent C compiler.  If you are interested
> in pursuing this, please contact us.

Thanks. I will.

But one general question, what about run-time? We have a bare board with no 
OS planned. To my limited knowledge to translate from Ada to ARM is not the 
main problem here.

> -Tucker Taft  stt@sofcheck.com
> President, SofCheck, Inc.
> 
> (SofCheck now owns and maintains the AdaMagic(tm) technology
>  developed by Intermetrics, Inc., aka AverStar, AverCom/Titan)

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry Kazakov
www.dmitry-kazakov.de