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From: Stephen Leake <Stephen.A.Leake@nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Ada compiler for 68hc11?
Date: 31 Mar 2003 12:24:14 -0500
Date: 2003-03-31T17:38:22+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uistztpoh.fsf@nasa.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5CB092B5E73F8732.EE74AA87878A038F.C036C4E988171C8E@lp.airnews.net

"John R. Strohm" <strohm@airmail.net> writes:

> "Stephane Carrez" <stcarrez@nerim.fr> wrote in message
> news:3E84CB25.8070307@nerim.fr...
> > ... because the GNAT runtime is not ported yet to 68HC11.  (I'm also pretty
> sure
> > it will not fit as is on an embedded system like the HC11). You can't
                    ^^^^^ 
> According to Jean Ichbiah, Who By All Rights Ought To Know If ANYONE ON THE
> PLANET Ought To, an Ada runtime can be written in 4K.  Strictly speaking,
> that was 4K Storage_Units.  The Ada runtime for the TI 320C30/C40
> floating-point DSP did in fact fit in 4K words (at one instruction per word,
> I should add).

Well, sure. But the current public release of the GNAT runtime is not
designed to fit in 4k; it is designed to support a wide range of
systems with minimal change. Very different criteria!

-- 
-- Stephe



  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-31 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-28  8:20 Ada compiler for 68hc11? Rune Winther
2003-03-28  9:26 ` Alfred
2003-03-28 22:22 ` Stephane Carrez
2003-03-28 22:42   ` John R. Strohm
2003-03-31 17:24     ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2003-03-31  7:38 ` Rune Winther
2003-04-05  7:09   ` Tarjei T. Jensen
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