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,fd9a8f91bb89a8d2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-14 11:53:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!carbon.eu.sun.com!btnet-feed5!btnet!news.btopenworld.com!not-for-mail From: "Martin Dowie" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is it possible to build an Ada cross-compiler for an 8-bit embedded target now that gcc 3.X has support for Ada? Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 19:52:42 +0000 (UTC) Organization: BT Openworld Message-ID: References: <20619edc.0311141059.3db2de83@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: host81-129-117-252.in-addr.btopenworld.com X-Trace: titan.btinternet.com 1068839562 21207 81.129.117.252 (14 Nov 2003 19:52:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news-complaints@lists.btinternet.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 19:52:42 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2505 Date: 2003-11-14T19:52:42+00:00 List-Id: "Mike Silva" wrote in message news:20619edc.0311141059.3db2de83@posting.google.com... > Peter Amey wrote in message news:... > > > > The biggest problem with this approach in general is the size of the > > run-time library you need to support all of Ada (esp. tasking, exception > > handling etc.) and writing such a library for a small processor. We > > have had some success in avoiding these problems by using SPARK as the > > design language. This gives several benefits: > > That's a very interesting approach to the problem! SPARK Ravenscar > would be an obvious and excellent next step, it seems. Anyone know of a SPARK-ed RTK?..