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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Why are Ada compilers difficult to write ?
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 16:19:18 -0500
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"Paul Rubin" <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote in message 
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> "Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net> writes:
>>> > resource-constrained to the point of making any Ada or C++ or Java
>>> > support impractical therein...
>> Which Ada complier(s) support any
>> of sdcc's following 8-bit microcontrollers (many of which are vintage
>> 1970s-era 8-bit ISAs)?  1) Intel's MSC51 (8031, 8032, 8051, 8052), ...
>
> That nobody bothered to develop such a compiler doesn't mean it's
> impractical to do so.

We looked at doing so in the late 1980s; there didn't seem to be a technical 
problem but it wasn't clear that we could find/sell to the customers 
involved. In the end, we didn't do it.

                                               Randy.