Building GNAT (Ada) 4.2.2 for bare hardware

[Joel Sherrill]

Luke A. Guest wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking to build a version of gnat (Ada) for bare hardware but it
> requires dirent.h which isn't supported by newlib.
>
> My targets are i386-elf, x86_64-elf, mips-elf and mipsel-elf. I'm
> attempting to write an OS  from scratch using Ada and don't require much
> of the runtime like tasking, exceptions, file IO, etc.
>
> For more of idea of what I'm planning, go to http://www.archeia.com and
> look for the TAMP entry.
>
> Can somebody point me in the right direction?
>   
How bare do you want the hardware?  GNAT+RTEMS works
well for 4.2.2.  It includes full tasking, Ada interrupt tasks,
stack checking, GNAT Sockets support, etc.  When I ran
ACATS on the PowerPC and SPARC, it was within a few
tests of 100%.  I spot checked the MIPS and x86.

--joel
> Thanks,
> Luke A. Guest.
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