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- From: eachus@Dr_No.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
- Subject: Re: Ada for Small Processors
- Message-ID: <EACHUS.92Sep8121403@Dr_No.mitre.org>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 17:14:03 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: spray@convex.com's message of Thu, 3 Sep 1992 16:24:35 GMT
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- In article <spray.715537475@convex.convex.com> spray@convex.com (Rob Spray) writes:
-
- > A project I am familiar with got a waiver to write a few hundred
- > line C program for an Intel 8031.
-
- Was this an Air Force program? If so, what you got was almost
- certainly an exception not a waiver, but that's a different issue.
-
- > 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.
-
- Once upon a time, an attempt to validate an Ada compiler for an
- 8031 which did not support floating point operations or Text_IO might
- would have been considered heretical. However, I think that today
- such a validation might be looked at with more favor. (Certainly
- insufficient memory to load Text_IO should make a valid AI-325 case,
- etc.)
-
- But in reality, no one is really pushing for the use of Ada on
- small processors. If the processor, and the code, are really small,
- then hardware availability down the road is a much more important
- issue than software maintenance costs.
-
- --
-
- Robert I. Eachus
-
- with STANDARD_DISCLAIMER;
- use STANDARD_DISCLAIMER;
- function MESSAGE (TEXT: in CLEVER_IDEAS) return BETTER_IDEAS is...
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