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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7a27b8f727dd1e47 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!newshosting.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.icl.net!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: sk Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT and no runtime Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 08:58:10 -0500 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1085666032 54180 212.85.156.195 (27 May 2004 13:53:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 13:53:52 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020828 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:880 Date: 2004-05-27T08:58:10-05:00 JCS : > ... > So, in sumary, you are porting the GNAT run-time ? The point I am trying to make is that to port a run-time, you need to know what you are porting it to ! Replacing each run-time function at a time will probably work, but why not actually step back and write the kernel/executive to achieve your goals and then port the GNAT run-time to your kernel's capabilities ? > Even if I disagree with your design, ... Not "my design", it is how the Intel (>= i386) chips are built. Why not use the security/ring features of the chip if they are available ? > ...it would be out of topic here. Discussion of OS written in Ada off topic ? Sorry, I disagree, the topic seems appropriate to comp.lang.ada -- ------------------------------------------------- -- Merge vertically for real address -- -- s n p @ t . o -- k i e k c c m -------------------------------------------------