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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: Help with embedded hardware/software platform selection for ADA
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 16:45:54 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2013-07-02, Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
>
> Our embedded projects need more than 2GB RAM to compile with GNAT. Even if
> the compiler would not crash on Storage_Error, a native tool chain for a
> tiny embedded target is not the way people would like to have it.
>
> There is no such problem when using Atom or Geode (and Linux). But for ARM
> (or an OS different from the host OS, like VxWorks) one needs a cross
> compiler.
>
> Which is why Atom and Geode have a huge potential for embedded Ada, IMO.
>

It's not clear what you are saying here Dmitry. Are you implying that
Ada can only have a huge potential if the code is run in the same native
environment on the target as was used to develop the code on the host ?

If so, you should be aware that a major hobbyist platform, Arduino,
which is a AVR based platform, works using cross compiled toolchains
and nobody in the hobbyist world seems to have a problem with that.

Simon.

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