Re: Ada and embedded applications

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <cf0T6.122$YB3.72776@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com>, Chris Campbell
says...
>
>it if possible.  One thing concerns me, consider tasks for example.  I can't
>implement tasks in the compiler due to the nature of the work i'll be doing.
>Tasks are highly dependant on the native OS so i'll reprogram bits, but to do
>what?  Is there something that a compiler should do when a language feature
>isn't supported?

For building a microkernel, I'd imagine you'd want to create a "no tasking"
program. I believe Gnat has custom pragmas to enforce that.

>Also which distribution of GNAT should i get for this?  I think the DOS

There appears to be only one source distribution for Gnat, so the answer to this
is trivial. The tougher question is what target you should configure it for when
you build the compiler. I'd guess that the best way to start would probably be a
Windows to bare x86 cross-compiler. I haven't looked at the source distribution
myself, so I don't know how much work that would be.

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