Re: Ada and embedded applications

["Chris Campbell" <chris.danx@ntlworld.com>]

> : One poster claimed that Ada was not used in some embedded devices because
> of
> : memory overheads for exception handling.  Claiming it was used in embedded
> : devices in industries that had budgets that supported it (e.g. the
> aerospace
> : industry).
> :
> : Is this correct or is it rubbish?
>
> Rubbish.

> : Also does exception handling in Ada really
> : have a large overhead?  (This is probably an implementation issue but is
> their
> : anything in the language that makes exception handling bulky?).
>
> Not for most of the embedded Ada code I've written.

Maybe this posters views where based on the fact that the last time he used Ada
was in 1983 and it was a Janus compiler (i.e. Ada was relatively new and
compiler technology less advanced than it is today).









Chris Campbell