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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Thanks for pointing out my project :) It's out of date and doesn't build 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.