From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=3.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 X-Received: by 2002:a0c:f8c7:: with SMTP id h7mr7327748qvo.21.1619520838251; Tue, 27 Apr 2021 03:53:58 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a25:d6d2:: with SMTP id n201mr31109911ybg.504.1619520838027; Tue, 27 Apr 2021 03:53:58 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder1.feed.usenet.farm!feed.usenet.farm!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed7.news.xs4all.nl!50.7.236.18.MISMATCH!news-out.netnews.com!news.alt.net!fdc3.netnews.com!peer02.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!postnews.google.com!google-groups.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 03:53:57 -0700 (PDT) Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=87.1.124.248; posting-account=JRF_-woAAABYlsAtkCl_CUxBuQy2SsaQ NNTP-Posting-Host: 87.1.124.248 User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <03069fda-8362-4138-9390-2d1c4c443949n@googlegroups.com> Subject: SweetAda 0.4 released From: Gabriele Galeotti Injection-Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 10:53:58 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Received-Bytes: 4963 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:61914 List-Id: Hi all. I've just released SweetAda 0.4. SweetAda is a lightweight development framework to create Ada systems on a wide range of machines. Please refer to https://www.sweetada.org. Release notes ------------- - SweetAda has a new toolchain, armeb-sweetada-eabi, to handle big-endian ARMs (previously this was not necessary since ZFP does not link against libraries); affected target is DigiConnectME -- and eventually your own experimental target; ARM BE targets now not need to specify big-endian switches anymore, but they should explicitly specify armeb-sweetada-eabi as the toolchain name in the platform configuration.in, i.e.: TOOLCHAIN_NAME := $(TOOLCHAIN_NAME_ARMeb) whilst ARM LE takes the default toolchain - the non-optimized versions of divsi3/modsi3 for MicroBlaze were not selected; this is now corrected - the download script for Dreamcast -- bba.tcl -- is now written in Tcl (note: requires Tcl UDP extension) and thus does not require the dc-tool-ip utility, quick'n'dirty, no error checking yet; if it is difficult to install a Tcl extensions, then stuck yourself with dc-tool-ip by just uncommenting its exec line, and do an exit - remove useless return statements in various Tcl scripts - use Bits.BigEndian/LittleEndian booleans in llutils unit - ATmega328P has more MCU definitions (not complete yet) - ArduinoUno: - XTAL clock frequency is specified in configure.ads - ZFP profile is forced in configuration.in to avoid problems with a small foot-print memory, thus overriding the settings in the top-level configuration.in - BSP does nothing; tests moved in application/test-ArduinoUno - FRDM-KL46Z has more definitions; ZFP profile is forced in configuration.in to avoid problems with a small foot-print memory, thus overriding the settings in the top-level configuration.in - bits.ads: some Bits_XX_Mask corrected; added Bits_XX_RMask - now RTSes have, in every CPU target, two more files: 1) Makefile.srcs.in, the list of source files used (not of particular use so far, just a reference); 2) Makefile.rts.in, contains CPU-wide switches (i.e., not dependent on the multilib selected) used during the RTS build; those switches, which normally are empty, are automatically imported in the master Makefile and added to the target platform CPU, thus assuring that the compiler agrees on both RTS code and SweetAda/user code; as a consequence of this, there is no more need to specify, e,g, "-fno-leading-underscore" in SuperH/SH4 targets, and MIPS targets inherit automatically a -G0 switch (they are the only switches which are actually used in the RTS for those targets) - QEMU-MIPS was based on "mips" machine; this machine does not exist anymore in current QEMU and so the platform is now based on "mipssim", what changes is just the UART16450 base I/O address in monitor.S - Nios II Terasic DE10-Lite now has a Tcl front-end (programmer.tcl) which automatically downloads the SOF bitstream and executes the SweetAda code by means of Quartus command-line utilities and jtagd daemon - Nios II Terasic DE10-Lite exposes a configuration setup that explains practically how to override core units, i.e., it invalidates last_chance_handler in the core directory and redefines the same subprogram package in its own directory, so to avoid dragging in the entire console package (which is used by the standard implementation of last_chance_handler) - all Tcl scripts that handle the download of code on a physical target board are possibly renamed to a standardized "programmer.tcl" - menu-dialog.sh now always shows warnings (previously it used to show warnings only if the build failed due to hard errors) - typos, cosmetics and minor adjustments Quick notes ----------- As usual, download the three packages core, RTS and LibGCC (since many changes are system-wide), and please save your work before overwrite the filesystem. G