Re: PalmOS cross-compilers

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Justin Gombos <rpbkbq.xax.gld@uluv.kbq> writes:

> Looking at the archives, it seems JGNAT was the only way to run Ada
> software on a Palm at one point.  Then later there were reports of
> JGNAT falling out of date, and not working well with the newer Java
> virtual machines.
>
> So are there any better options now?
>
> Someone hinted recently that the Ada runtime engine is not available
> for Ada implementations running on PalmOS.  How is that possible?
> What compiler is that?

Since GCC targets the Palm, you can easily build the GCC Ada compiler
for the Palm, but without the run-time system.

However, 'pragma No_Run_Time' seems to be gone in current versions of
GNAT. I don't know if 'pragma Profile (Restricted)' will let you use
this compiler without a run-time.

You can find out at link time if you've written code that needs the
run-time. Just like C :).

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