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On 2021-10-25 2:24, 711 Spooky Mart wrote:


> Does modern Ada have facility for writing boot loaders, inline Assembly,
> kernels, etc.?


In-line assembly is supported by most of the Ada compilers I have used, 
but the syntax may differ across compilers.

The run-time systems (real-time kernels) associated with Ada compilers 
for bare-board embedded systems are typically written in Ada, with minor 
amounts of assembly language inserted for the very HW-specific parts 
such as HW context saving and restoring.

I'm not very familiar with boot loaders, but I see no reason why a boot 
loader could not be written in Ada. However, usually (and as for other 
languages) there will be a small start-up routine in assembly language 
to initialize the processor, set up a stack, and so forth. The "Ada Bare 
Bones" project is doing something like this, I believe: 
https://wiki.osdev.org/Ada_Bare_bones.