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: 103376,5bcf30769d6d9599 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-04 06:57:56 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!213.56.195.71!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "M. A. Alves" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada OS talk (was: ADA os talk) Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 14:57:05 +0000 (GMT) Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 999611875 88998 137.194.161.2 (4 Sep 2001 13:57:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 13:57:55 +0000 (UTC) To: Return-Path: X-X-Sender: In-Reply-To: <9n2jqk$bbk$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.4 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12693 Date: 2001-09-04T14:57:05+00:00 On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Marin David Condic wrote: > Absolutely no objection. If we had an Ada kernel that could be booted off of > a floppy into a PC and provided some rudimentary capability to load and run > another Ada program on a single processor with a single user, then you'd > really have something there. Good strategy. Now, is there a fragment of Ada that GNAT compiles into native machine code i.e. independently of host OS? (Then we could use that fragment to write the boot, compile it in a working machine with the same architecture, put it on the floppy boot sector, and use a clean machine to test it.) Or a fragment dependent on some host OS things but that we can tamper with in the GNAT backend to make it independent? Also, what is the fragment of Ada necessary and sufficient to make a full Ada compiler/interpreter? -- , M A R I O data miner, LIACC, room 221 tel 351+226078830, ext 121 A M A D O Rua Campo Alegre, 823 fax 351+226003654 A L V E S P-4150 PORTO, Portugal mob 351+939354002