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Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> writes:

> H Keller <hbk@ci-tec.de> writes:
>> Sorry, I mentioned that we will working on an ARM7 and that AdaCore
>> offers only support for an ARM4. What may be misunderstanding here?
>
> I wondered if ARM4 actually meant Cortex M4, which uses the ARMv7
> architecture.  The actual ARMv4 architecture hasn't been used since the
> bronze age.  There doesn't seem to have even been a core called "ARM4"
> like there was ARM7, ARM9, etc.

AdaCore's GNAT GPL 2015 supports STM32F4-DISCO, STM32F429-DISCO,
STM32F7-EVAL boards from STMicroelectronics. The first two are
Cortex-M4, the last is Cortex-M7. It looks to me as though all support
the ARMv7-M architecture (this is unclear ...)