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From: lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)
Subject: Re: Compiler for Z80/6510
Date: 1999/11/29
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* Marin Condic wrote:
>Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
>> Does anyone know a working Ada95 compiler for Z80 (U880) and 6510/6502
>> microcontrolers?
>
>It's pretty sad that there was a near zero useful response to this
>question. (The most useful being from Tucker Taft regarding the Ada-toC
>compiler). This so quickly degenerated into a discussion about Ada vs
>Assembler that one wonders if maybe this is a smoke screen to cover up the
>embarrassing real answer that "No. There are no Ada compilers for small
>microcontrollers."

That's not true. I got a partial offer for a cross compiler. Thanx to this
company.

>I think it would be very useful to have a microcontroller card with an Ada
>compiler targeted to it, hosted on a PC and at an affordable price.

The price is affordable, but we need it for pure non commercial projects
like reprogramming a Gameboy and doing some hacking (http://gsho.thur.de/)

>The sad news is that while you can find dozens of off the shelf controller
>cards with a whole kit for developing the software in C from a PC, (and
>generally under $500, so a garage startup can afford the development kit!)
>you won't likely find anything similar in Ada. If you do, I'd be most
>grateful to hear about it.

C Compilers can be made easily. The code generation is as expected: Bad.