Re: [open-cobol-list] OC on bare metal, foresee any major issues?

[Bernard Giroud]

Le 09/02/2013 22:30, Patrick a écrit :
> I haven't really wanted to program in C(although I am interested in open
> Cobol internals now). About 15 months ago I started to learn Ada as I
> wanted to use it for embedded design. I thought that since it's billed
> as an embedded language and is part of GCC it ought to be able to target
> all the devices that GCC supports and do so without an operating system.
>
> I own 53lbs of Ada books now, I really love the language and the
> community but it's like finding out that your wife is already married to
> another dude and has 5 kids with him. Ada needs an OS under it and
> unless you have $20K lying around your choices are Linux or Windows.
>
> OC compiles to C, is there any reason I should not be able to cross
> compile it? I can mix it with C or ASM to access the very low level
> stuff right?
Yes you can; saving the C code and using a cross-compile chain tool.
But I'm not quite sure it will wipe out your disappointment: C is a 
language not an OS, you will still need the low level functions like 
open, ...

Bernard
>   Does anyone see any issues, i am about to dive in and I
> might crack my head on the shallow end of the pool again-Patrick
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer
> Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013
> and get the hardware for free! Learn more.
> http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb
> _______________________________________________
> open-cobol-list mailing list
> address@hidden
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-cobol-list