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- From: spray@convex.com (Rob Spray)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
- Subject: Re: Ada for Small Processors
- Message-ID: <spray.715537475@convex.convex.com>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 16:24:35 GMT
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- In <9209021559.AA22344@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> deatrick@SDFVAX.RC.TRW.COM ("Will Deatrick, 619-592-3535") writes:
-
- >every hardware module. The 8031 provides all the capability we need, but
- >I cannot find an Ada compiler for it or any other "small" processor.
-
- >Have others run into this problem before? Is the only answer an Ada
- >waiver, or spending money for a processor with far more power than
- >what is needed?
-
- A project I am familiar with got a waiver to write a few hundred
- line C program for an Intel 8031.
-
- >Someone mentioned to me that Ada was not "compatible" with the smaller
- >processors. Is there some technical reason why there are no Ada compilers
- >for smaller processors, or is it a business decision (e.g. too small a
- >market).
-
- Given the limited address space and register set of some of
- these processors, a validated compiler that supports all
- the intricasies of generics and tasking would be very hard
- to produce on such a processor.
-
- --Rob
- --spray@convex.com
-