From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "G.B." Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: STM32F4 Discovery, communication and libraries Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 15:04:40 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <60a42dc6-d8d0-4432-ae5a-86de18b82840@googlegroups.com> <5kkrv9hejn2qhdckkeo8lidkbh3bkme1gn@4ax.com> <5b91313c-acf9-4a6e-b157-6ba7c8021567@googlegroups.com> <0513ad07-6fbe-463a-be6f-097cd5113f52@googlegroups.com> <4f1ec65a-d66a-40bf-a0d6-278fde206e70@googlegroups.com> <1cjwzr30b24xy.11kpydntxhfo5$.dlg@40tude.net> <1xrcksk78afho$.xz6vgakq9o4t.dlg@40tude.net> <1cbqqpx46gpl4$.ggt9magmgptm$.dlg@40tude.net> Reply-To: nonlegitur@futureapps.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 13:04:38 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="b96887e80893c84a90c3007226ca0d1c"; logging-data="21117"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18c+AbwSy6BATj8Z8DIjc2wUl/WCVWWdb8=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 In-Reply-To: <1cbqqpx46gpl4$.ggt9magmgptm$.dlg@40tude.net> Cancel-Lock: sha1:GLzW7BSRQlhHxTEp0U+dE2Sfhkk= Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:188799 Date: 2014-09-02T15:04:40+02:00 List-Id: On 02.09.14 10:21, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: >> Will a small board made for the ubiquitous, penniless underlings >> working in cost-optimized production warrant a full Ada run-time? > > Why not? Full Ada 83 ran on 2MB mini VAX, if I correctly remember. RAM on STM32 F4 is not measured in MB or higher, AFAICT, but in KB. >> Why, if systems are not meant to be flexible? >> And what will be its overhead? > The overhead will be maintenance of board revisions. I thought you were talking about overheads measured in protected actions per event and similar.