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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,677963b1aa23e668 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What's stopping you from using Ada for your next commercial project? Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 04:28:38 +0100 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: V3m71nKMeFV1XsM5rgnmrw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.01 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:19126 Date: 2011-03-14T04:28:38+01:00 List-Id: Le Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:55:26 +0100, Lucretia = a = =C3=A9crit: >> And that's why pretty much nobody who wants to evaluate embedded Ada = on = >> their own (as opposed to getting paid to do so) will make the effort.= = >> It's up to an Ada tool vendor, perhaps in cooperation with a board = >> vendor, to provide an out-of-the-box solution. > > Actually, you can do this already and you can customise the runtime = > (search for configurable within system.ads) so that you only provide a= = > limited set of features. See https://github.com/Lucretia/tamp where I = do = > exactly that to provide a zero footprint runtime for bare boards. It = > does take an age to compile due to building acats on the native compil= er = > as well. > > Luke. Please, let us know about any other material you may know about = creating/modifying the GNAT Ada runtime. This is useful not only for = people targeting embedded boards, but also for people who wish to drop = some specific system dependencies or who complains =E2=80=9CGNAT binarie= s are too = big=E2=80=9D (a complain I often saw on misc sites and forums). I am boo= kmarking = the link you provided. -- = Si les chats miaulent et font autant de vocalises bizarres, c=E2=80=99es= t pas pour = les chiens. =E2=80=9CI am fluent in ASCII=E2=80=9D [Warren 2010]