From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 2002:a24:9458:: with SMTP id j85-v6mr7617241ite.18.1531777137355; Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:38:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:aca:c6ca:: with SMTP id w193-v6mr4171116oif.1.1531777137106; Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:38:57 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.uzoreto.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!g2-v6no5629528itf.0!news-out.google.com!l67-v6ni128itl.0!nntp.google.com!d7-v6no5635385itj.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:38:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=165.225.72.119; posting-account=bMuEOQoAAACUUr_ghL3RBIi5neBZ5w_S NNTP-Posting-Host: 165.225.72.119 References: <1d3743b1-1a36-429d-92c7-9ae0e7c16e63@googlegroups.com> <8cf99886-bbf2-4fb9-9a92-aaa5403a2624@googlegroups.com> <821c650e-72ae-4bd1-97a4-3a9bd7433d48@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <2e79b691-61d0-4ed4-8fb8-5d2187bbf06f@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Ada: A beginners experience From: Maciej Sobczak Injection-Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 21:38:57 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:53853 Date: 2018-07-16T14:38:56-07:00 List-Id: > 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 th= ink there is some correction needed here - the examples in the tutorial wer= e written with the assumption of native compilation (for example on Raspber= ryPi), 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 developmen= t. There are other sources that cover the (more or less) full runtime appro= ach, with ready runtimes and driver libraries, so the tutorial tried to fil= l the niche for smaller chips or those projects that chose zero-foot-print = for other reasons (traceability, IP politics, etc.). --=20 Maciej Sobczak * http://www.inspirel.com