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On 2014-06-23, Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 15:08:47 -0500, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>> 
>> Right, but I was thinking of the rather elaborate language-defined I/O 
>> facilities. I doubt that there is much use for Ada.Directories on the 
>> typical embedded board.
>
> It is rather common to have a USB flash attached, formatted FAT or
> something. So Ada.Directories is not so outlandish as it may appear...
>

RTEMS has generic directory support as well although USB support was
a work in progress when I last looked at USB support in RTEMS.

I'm beginning to think the most viable approach for Ada in these
embedded environments is to forget about Ada from top to bottom
and instead focus on Ada at the embedded application level and
run that Ada application on top of a C language RTOS base, just
as you can currently do with RTEMS.

That's not the ideal approach, but it's probably the most pragmatic
approach.

Simon.

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