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From: John McCormick <mccormick@cs.uni.edu>
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Subject: Re: How do I write directly to a memory address?
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On Feb 2, 11:52=A0pm, Syntax Issues <syntax.iss...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am planning to start learning lower-level programming with ada,
> however, I was unable to find a solid tutorial on writing directly to
> a memory address or interfacing with assembly. Does anyone know where
> I can find a reference to some tutorials/information? Below is an
> example of code I would like to be able to implement.

Warning self promotion follows:

Chapter 2 of the book "Building Parallel, Embedded, and Real-Time
Applications with Ada" by McCormick, Singhoff, and Hugues includes a
long section on low level programming with Ada.  It covers both memory
mapped and port I/O architectures.  We develop polling and interrupt
based device drivers.  Everything is done using high level Ada
abstractions for low level features.  It includes a small amount of
machine code insertion.  We just turned in the final page proofs and
expect to have hard oopy by April.  See http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowled=
ge/isbn/item5659578

John