Re: How do I go about creating a minimal GNAT runtime?

[gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com]

Hello,
If you are interested, I've a not-yet-working project called HAC -
description follows...
Send me a mail http://sourceforge.net/users/gdemont
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HAC - the Hacker's Ada Compiler
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Alternative name: Hello-world Ada Compiler

Objectives:
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 - fun!
 - produce the smallest Hello-world executable!

What HAC will never be:
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 - a real, serious Ada compiler - there are enough serious ones!
 - a complete compiler - only a small subset will be covered

History:
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- 2009: a bit further...
- 1999: translated Mac Pascal sources to Ada
- 1989: SmallAda is derived from CoPascal; works only inside
          very system-dependent environments (a Mac GUI, a DOS GUI)
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On 21 Feb., 10:11, Dimonax <dimo...@nospam.net> wrote:

> Actually I've been learning my way around the Ada Runtime for similiar
> reasons. I say similiar because the goal is different.
>
> I'm a demoscene hacker. Anyone who knows that is knows that a demo
> usually requires a very small footprint.(Look up the 4k demos that have
> been posted up online.)
>
> While my goals arent that lofty, I would like to build a runtime that I
> could fit into a demo that's less than 1024k if at all possible. 64k is
> preferred.
>
> I want the concurrency features mostly, but I love the power of the full
> typing system.
>
> It's pretty easy to build executables using shared libraries (-bargs -
> shared under gnat-gcc) that are tiny. But I need to get the whole system
> down as tiny as possible.
>
> So, sound like we have similiar plans even though the goals are different?
>
> Anyone else here looking to do the same?
>
> Freejack