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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: New educational hardware ideal for Ada...
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:10:08 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2011-06-14, John Kern <phone.john.kern@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> However it seems there are ARM cross-compilers available:
> http://libre.adacore.com/libre/tools/mindstorms
>
> and https://www2.adacore.com/gap-static/gnat_mindstorms_slides.pdf
>
> It seems there are two flavors of ARM cross compilers available as
> GNAT GPL, one on a free OSEK OS, and another bare Ravenscar profile.
> Presumably someone would need to modify the Lego NXT board support
> package to accommodate new hardware, but at least there must be some
> example code provided with the GPL compiler.

There is also the gcc used to build RTEMS applications, which contains
support for Ada and is a specific version of the FSF source tree with
patches. I have used it to build various small Ada applications on a
ARM board running RTEMS, but nothing major to date.

Simon.

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