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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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On 2014-04-12, Yannick Duchêne <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Le Sat, 12 Apr 2014 20:38:48 +0200, Simon Clubley  
><clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-earth.ufp> a écrit:
>>> I wonder about that; is the runtime that difficult to port? What about
>>> having "staged" runtimes, with minimal, reduced, and nominal
>>> functionality? (Perhaps using the restriction pragmas...)
>>>
>>> Also, couldn't such a system be made so that the *really* system
>>> dependent stuff is all hidden in a package-body and [relatively] easy to
>>> port?
>>>
>>> eg
>>> Minimal : No tasking or protected objects, or unconstrained functions
>>> allowed.
>>> Reduced : No Tasking and Protected objects; but unconstrained functions
>>> are allowed.
>>> Normal  : Everything.
>>>
>>
>> People like Luke who have tried this in the past
>
> Who's Luke ?
>

Luke A. Guest. He's done work on getting GNAT running in bare metal mode
on the ARM and (IIRC) PIC32 architectures.

This appears to be Luke's GitHub repository list:

https://github.com/Lucretia?tab=repositories

(BTW, I think the cat is cute. :-))

Simon.

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