From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,fd2f984f8ef238d1 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!feedme.ziplink.net!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Alex R. Mosteo" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why so hard to come up with a simple embedded Ada system? Followup-To: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:50:21 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <37da1783-b355-4d43-a9a8-7f0d4ba4da9c@t13g2000prf.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Injection-Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:52:46 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx03.eternal-september.org; posting-host="jHmIBzp9BoAT+cQr9ucGPQ"; logging-data="7037"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+sP7qj3NSb/LUJ8tPdsD30" User-Agent: KNode/4.4.5 Cancel-Lock: sha1:X8Dmt042ujdOPUqW5dQwzxLVtX4= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12432 Date: 2010-07-15T11:50:21+02:00 List-Id: Steve D wrote: > wrote in message > news:37da1783-b355-4d43-a9a8-7f0d4ba4da9c@t13g2000prf.googlegroups.com... >> I'll just come out and say it - for a language that was designed for >> as much for embedded applications as for anything, it seems to be >> maddeningly difficult to actually get Ada on a modest embedded >> platform. By modest I mean low-end 32 bits, no MMU. ARM7 or Cortex >> Mx would be my first choice. I can be up and running on such a >> platform with C and a tasking library in a day (Rowley Crossworks, >> nice package). Why can't I do the same with Ada? Or rather, to avoid >> making this about me, why can't an embedded programmer - student, >> hobbyist or professional - who's heard about Ada and wants to give it >> a spin, including hard-realtime concurrency, just do it? >> >> If Ada fans (I include myself) want to see Ada get more exposure, this >> seems like not only a desirable step but a necessary one. I can run C >> on a thousand such boards, and I can't (AFAIK) run Ada on one. >> >> Maybe this is all available, and I just haven't found out where. Then >> that's a problem too, but I'll be happy to hear about it. >> >> All comments welcome. > > The closest I have come is RTEMS http://www.rtems.com. > > I haven't looked at it for a while, but there has generally been good Ada > support. Hanging down under this RTEMS thread... May be there's some useful pointer in this old thread: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ada/browse_thread/thread/75412f14b0c43a2d/17482244d75fb19a Also there's MaRTE OS, but I don't know if it targets anything else besides x86: http://marte.unican.es