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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ef33c33c4f98bde1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Mike Silva" Subject: Re: Compiler for Z80/6510 Date: 1999/11/29 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 554536216 References: <3842C8FD.5EFB9685@pwfl.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 X-Complaints-To: news@wenet.net X-Trace: news.wenet.net 943905178 206.169.137.33 (Mon, 29 Nov 1999 11:52:58 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 11:52:58 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Marin Condic wrote in message <3842C8FD.5EFB9685@pwfl.com>... >...the >embarrassing real answer that "No. There are no Ada compilers for small >microcontrollers." My own instinct (meaning I'm not prepared to back it up, just wave my arms ) on this is that (1) for the 8-bit world, the chips really are too small to support enough Ada to be significant, (2) for the 16-bit world, full Ada could be supported, but the 16-bit world seems to be turning into something of a backwater (once you've gone that far, especially with >16 bit addresses, why not go 32 bits internally?), leaving (3) the 32-bit world, where Ada, it seems to me, has an excellent chance to be "rehabilitated" as the percentage of embedded systems that go 32-bit will just continue to climb. IMHO, Ada on cheap 32-bit hardware is an embedded designer's dream come true -- it's just tooooo delicious! Mike