Re: Crazy idea: Ada for Android? (A4A?)

[Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>]

On 2010-11-07, Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Am 07.11.2010, 11:48 Uhr, schrieb mockturtle <framefritti@gmail.com>:
>
>> Dear.all,
>> I just read an article (on a paper magazine, so no link available)
>> about Android.  As I understand, Android applications are executed by
>> Dalvik, a specially-tailored Java VM and that there is a converter
>> from Java VM to Dalvik.
>

I'm on the verge of buying my first Android phone and I have considered
this as well. However, I was thinking about the NDK level instead of the
Java based SDK level.

>
> Alternatively there is the NDK  for native non-VM development. But that  
> would only be do-able for Ada-Core itself.
>

Why ?

OAR (the creators of RTEMS) have modified gcc so that Ada will run
on RTEMS. The AVR-Ada people have modified gcc so that Ada will run on
bare metal AVRs.

It's probably way too much work for me in light of other hobbyist projects
I have pending, but I don't see why someone more familiar with the code
base could not do it (at least in principle.)

Simon.

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