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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada used in General Aviation (GA) applications?
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 20:10:38 +0000 (UTC)
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"Bernd Specht" <Bernd.Specht@gmx.com> wrote in message
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> Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com> wrote in
> news:409F69CB.8020604@noplace.com:
>
>
> > If Ada wants to be a player in General Aviation avionics it needs to do
> > something to either a) target & capture some more "general" market that
> > will provide the $$$ that will build the tools/talent/support
>
>
> There is a wide range of embedded applications on 8- and 16-bit processors
> like 8051 and HC11. But - no (Ada-)compiler vendor offers a compiler for
> such targets.

There are GNAT ports to AVR microcontrollers (see
http://sourceforge.net/projects/avr-ada).

But compiler vendors aren't going to support targets for which they see no
demand - so if you seriously want an Ada compiler for such things ASK! :-)