Re: Ada: A beginners experience

[Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>]

> Back a few years ago, I started similarly to where you did.  I did find
> the Inspirel book to be very good, but you had to understand the context
> it was coming from.  It seemed to assume you were natively (not cross)
> compiling your code.

Hi there, thank you for taking the time to check that tutorial. Still, I think there is some correction needed here - the examples in the tutorial were written with the assumption of native compilation (for example on RaspberryPi), simply because this makes the command-line the most compact and kind of neutral as well. All commands should give the same results in the cross-compilation environment. If you found any troubles with this, let me know. This can help improve the future tutorial revisions.

> I ran into trouble because I wanted to work on
> a controller bare-metal (it was too small for a full Ada runtime).

The tutorial was exactly focusing on zero-foot-print, bare-metal development. There are other sources that cover the (more or less) full runtime approach, with ready runtimes and driver libraries, so the tutorial tried to fill the niche for smaller chips or those projects that chose zero-foot-print for other reasons (traceability, IP politics, etc.).

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Maciej Sobczak * http://www.inspirel.com