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From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
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On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:36:27 +0400, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:

> Brian Drummond wrote:
> 
>> Yes. Bare metal programming on a Z80 is easy. Ditto PIC, AVR, etc etc,
>> and of these only the AVR has an Ada toolchain. It may not be mature
>> but it is very usable.

> I hope you'll get a good offer soon.  (Even if more Ada compiler targets
> is a good thing.)

Been playing... It turns out that msp-gcc builds remarkably easy with Ada 
enabled, it only needed one additional patch to build gnattools without 
building libada...

Next I stole the AVR-Ada RTS and tried building it with minimal changes 
for just one family of MSP430 processor. 

Now I *really* don't know what I am doing with setting up project files, 
so there is a horrid sequence of commands to build an executable with 
these tools...

but I have a "port" of the AVR "blinky" example running away on an MSP430!

It actually tried to work first time, except that I didn't know that the 
watchdog timer is enabled by default on an MSP...

I have a feeling that the difficult part will be packaging all the 
peripherals for 450 different processor models...

Don't know if there will be any interest in Ada on the MSP430?

- Brian