Re: Inspirels Ada on cortex tutorial linker issue

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk> writes:

> Mixing languages, you get used to that additional burden, but it's a
> surprise to have to, as the OP has, in a pure Ada program, thanks to a
> (hopefully temporary) compiler defect.

I'd say it's a feature, not a defect.

OP is using a full Ada compiler on an ARM Debian computer, and the
compiler and RTS are set up to deal with exception handling in a
particular way, which fails when the resulting code needs to be executed
on a very much smaller ARM platform without any runtime support.

As I noted upthread, one workround is to compile against an RTS which
doesn't provoke the compiler into the unwanted behaviour. And it doesn't
have to be much of an RTS!