Re: Help writing ada booting kernel

[anon@anon.org (anon)]

But Ada was never meant to be use as a Stand-Alone program without 
some kind of interface code from the BOOT ROM to the main procedure.

So unless you purchase an Ada compile, which can produce Stand-Alone 
code you must write a bootloader for your Ada program.  This bootloader 
is normally written in either C or Assembly., This is because the Free 
GNAT Ada Compiler/Binder/Linker does not include a way of creating 
Stand-Alone code.

As for low-level code, you have two options. The first is to use the 
pragma Import/Export statement.  While the second is to use the 
Ada ASM instruction and build your assembly routines.

The Best thing is go to your local book store and see if they have any 
books on Ada.  The other is to check out  http://www.adapower.com




In <f7d8vk$4tt$1@aioe.org>, Xianzheng Zhou <joe@lgsolutions.com.au> writes:
>Hello all,
>I'm a new to Ada and very interested in learning this language.
>Currently, I'm trying to write a small program in ada compiled by gnat,
>  to boot an ordinary PC, something like grub. I'm wonderring whether
>ada can do this low-level task and how may I use the gnat progma to
>achieve this. Please advise if you know how to do this.
>
>Many thanks.
>
>Joe