Re: Mixing Ada code with similar licenses

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

Jere <jhb.chat@gmail.com> writes:

> On Friday, March 10, 2017 at 4:09:07 PM UTC-5, Simon Wright wrote:
>> Jere writes:
>> 
>> > Later on I found some code from Robert Kleczek which gave me some
>> > ideas on how to transform a lot of the assembly in the original into
>> > Ada code.
>> 
>> I don't know if it would help, but there's code under GPL+runtime
>> exception here .. I thoroughly enjoyed writing it!
>> 
>> Files startup*.ad? in:
>> 
>> Cortex M4F (STM32F407)
>> https://sourceforge.net/p/cortex-gnat-rts/code/ci/default/tree/stm32f4/adainclude/
>> 
>> Cortex M3 (Arduino Due)
>> https://sourceforge.net/p/cortex-gnat-rts/code/ci/default/tree/arduino-due/adainclude/
>
> Just a followup.  I started down this path as a parallel option.  It
> really wants to use memset to do the assignment.  I didn't yet find an
> Ada memset procedure in those libraries (I only browsed some.  Nothing
> popped up in the filenames that made me think memset would be in
> there).  Is that something you relied on GCC to provide or did you
> roll your own and I am just missing it?
>
> With my current build setup, I am turning off cstdlib, so I don't have
> memset available unless I roll my own.  Not a problem, but just
> thought I would ask.

You're quite right.

The reason it worked for me is that I included newlib as part of the
compiler build, see
https://sourceforge.net/u/simonjwright/buildingarmeabi/code

But it does look neat!