Re: Help with embedded hardware/software platform selection for ADA

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com> wrote in message 
news:237325009394503647.389498laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org...
> "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
>> So, IMHO (and much like SPARK), Ravenscar is a tool needed only in very
>> specialized circumstances (typically, some sort of certification
>> requirement). Otherwise, one ought to forget about it and use Ada as it 
>> was
>> intended.
>
> The point of this thread is this, you can't use stock GNAT rts with these
> small boards, it has to be custom and is something I'm working on.

You can't really use Ada on those very small systems -- you can only use a 
tiny Ada subset, one that reduces the advantages of Ada a lot. Unless you're 
in the tiny minority of people that prefer the Ada *syntax* to that of C, 
you're not really gaining anything. (Ada witthout exceptions and most 
tasking isn't Ada at all, IMHO). RRS tried to serve that market back in the 
early days and got nowhere.

                                                 Randy.