Re: Ada used in General Aviation (GA) applications?

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com> writes:

> Actually, I'm looking at a new control project that would use
> PowerPC and VxWorks. Current leaning is towards Aonix for it. If ACT
> had a soup-to-nuts offering in that area, I'd want to know about it
> - but I'm not the ultimate customer. (I can recommend and maybe
> specify in the proposal, but the customer has to bob their head up
> and down. :-)

We are using GNAT with VxWorks. Of course if you're using VxWorks
you're going to be a Wind River customer, so a lot of the
environmental questions come from them ...

ACT offer "integration with Tornado" but I have to say we aren't great
users of it. Most of our code is developed & tested under Windows, not
my choice but we move on, and choosing the target to build for is
pretty painless within either IDE (a little bit more hands-on with the
Emacs-based GLIDE).

On the command line it's

  gnatmake -Pmy_project

vs

  powerpc-wrs-vxworks-gnatmake -XTARGET=target -Pmy_project

(of course we had to spend some time getting those project files to
recognise the build target etc!)

To me it seems pretty painless. Of course people accessing memory
after it's been freed is always going to be an issue, most especially
when the problem only shows up on the target.

-- 
Simon Wright                               100% Ada, no bugs.