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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: GNAT and Atmel AVR Microcontrollers
Date: 10 Dec 2001 11:19:57 -0500
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Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> Michael Bode <m.g.bode@web.de> writes:
> 
> > since gcc has support for the Atmel AVR series of microcontrollers and
> > gcc 3.1 is supposed to have gnat included, does that mean that from
> > gcc 3.1 on I will be able to programm AVRs in Ada with a plain vanilla
> > gcc (if I build gcc from the sources configured as a cross compiler)? 
> 
> Most likely no, if there's no Ada run-time library for the Atmel AVR
> and its OS (haven't checked this, though).

However, if you are willing to use the C runtime (no tasking, no
dynamic allocation, possibly no exceptions), it is not hard to get a
subset of Ada working.

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-- Stephe