From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com>
Subject: Re: Ada versus Pascal
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 09:40:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sl5qks$onu$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: itn7slFptmsU1@mid.individual.net
On 25/10/2021 09:23, Niklas Holsti wrote:
> On 2021-10-25 2:24, 711 Spooky Mart wrote:
>
>
>> Does modern Ada have facility for writing boot loaders, inline Assembly,
>> kernels, etc.?
>
Boot loaders and kernels are just another application area any general
purpose language can target, even Ada.
> 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
If you're talking x86 on PC's, then you'll need to read up on the x86
boot process in which x86 starts up in 16-bit (real) mode, then has to
be taken into protected and then long modes. You would need a GCC that
can target all those modes.
> 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.
Thanks for pointing out my project :) It's out of date and doesn't build
as is any more, but others have written Ada pages on that site since.
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-22 3:29 Ada versus Pascal 711 Spooky Mart
2021-10-22 6:18 ` ldries46
2021-10-22 9:59 ` 711 Spooky Mart
2021-10-22 15:12 ` Niklas Holsti
2021-10-22 15:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-10-23 7:13 ` ldries46
2021-10-23 14:08 ` Simon Wright
2021-10-22 6:40 ` Paul Rubin
2021-10-22 8:57 ` Niklas Holsti
2021-10-22 11:49 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2021-10-22 17:05 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2021-10-23 0:29 ` Paul Rubin
2021-10-23 1:17 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-10-23 17:24 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2021-10-24 7:04 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-10-22 20:00 ` Gautier write-only address
2021-10-24 4:33 ` Jerry
2021-10-24 6:32 ` ldries46
2021-10-24 16:51 ` Gautier write-only address
2021-10-24 23:24 ` 711 Spooky Mart
2021-10-25 8:23 ` Niklas Holsti
2021-10-25 8:40 ` Luke A. Guest [this message]
2021-10-25 13:34 ` Luke A. Guest
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