[Info-vax] open source OpenVMS (Re: Oracle-RDB seminar notes)

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-04-02 13:40, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2013-03-30, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>> On 2013-03-29 01:31, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes, GNAT is a GCC front end.
>>>
>>> BTW, which bare metal capable Ada compiler did you use ?
>>
>> If I remember right, it was Green Hill, but it's more than 10 years ago
>> now, so I might be confused.
>> This was for military applications, so the hardware was special, the Ada
>> runtime system was adapted to the hardware, and I was writing code in
>> Ada which talked directly to all kind of hardware. It was actually
>> pretty ok. Describing bitfields that were device registers worked pretty ok.
>>
>
> Thanks; I just wanted to make sure there wasn't a currently available
> Ada compiler I was unaware of.

Oh, it was from a major software house. Thinking about it, I might be 
wrong about Green Hill, though. I used that one, but it was on another 
project, where we ran Ada under VxWorks.
Still trying to recall what Ada we used for the bare metal... But right 
now my mind is blank.

	Johnny

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