Re: Vads Ada

["Xenos" <dont.spam.me@spamhate.com>]

"Jeff C," <jcreem@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Xenos" <dont.spam.me@spamhate.com> wrote in message
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> > Is any one currently using Rational's VADS Ada with Tornado 2.0.2?
> >
> > DrX
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> Sin ce VADS was End of Lifed many years ago, the answer is probably no. We
> use VADS for tornado
> 1.0.1? (vxWorks 5.3.1 for sure..whatever tornado that is) and even that is
> pushing it. The debugger pretty much stopped working on the transition
from
> vxWorks 5.2 to 5.3
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> I would strongly recommend an upgrade to GNAT, Greenhils or Apex Embedded.
> Depending on your target there might be one or two more options available
as
> well.
>
>

We are making a push to move to GNAT, but for awhile we are stuck supporting
VADS.  The debugger works fine, even with 5.3.1, you just have to manually
enable RDB in the kernel.  I got source from WRS for RDB and have it working
for 5.4, but beyond that its problematic because the VADS Ada kernel is
looking for a symbol which doesn't exist in later versions of our BSP.  We
are trying to assess how to best deal with this.  As I stated earier, for
now we are stuck with VADS but need to upgrade the hardware, which required
an upgrade of our BSP, which will kill support for VADS.  A catch-22 I had
hoped some other group has dealt with before.

Thanks for responding,

DrX