Re: DDS and Ada

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

On Jul 7, 8:04 pm, Gautier write-only <gautier_niou...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> On 7 juil, 04:34, Shark8 <onewingedsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Though a DOS Ada 2012 compiler might be very nice for one wishing to
> > do an OS.
>
> Really?

DOS is so minimal/unconstrained that one can easily make bootable
program with a DOS compiler. I had the start of an OS (I got it to the
point of being able to recognize commands and change video-modes)
written purely in BP7 {100% Pascal, with the exception of something
like 6-lines of inline assembler (to handle the keyboard/scan-codes)}.

The problem currently stumping me regarding doing it in Ada is that my
GNAT tries to hook the non-existent runtime OR (with the runtime-
restriction pragma) gives me funny linker errors preventing a compile.


> Anyway, if Ada 2012 is supported by GCC 4.6.1, you have your DOS Ada
> 2012 compiler:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.msdos.djgpp/browse_frm/thread/...

Oh, thanks for the lead.