Archeia

First simple app for ARM

After managing to update the build scripts for TAMP's compilers, I have managed to build and run a very simple application on an STM32F4DISCOVERY board in Ada.

Bare metal ARM GNAT compiler built

After a multitude of different builds and a few modifications to the GNAT runtime, I have finally managed to build GCC-4.6.1 C and GNAT compilers for bare metal.

The build utilises Newlib as the libc interface that GNAT's RTS builds upon, I've disabled sockets, files and a few other things

TAMP: Some success

After spending about 2 weeks basically compiling compilers pretty much constantly, I've managed to build gnat for arm-none-eabi with tools and without the runtime system, which is the most important part.

This isn't supported by AdaCore in the FSF release so I've had to hack into the makefi

Tamp started

I have been working on getting the basic toolchain created ready for the development of TAMP.

37 reasons to choose Ada over C

I was pointed at a link which goes through a number of reasons to choose Ada over C.

The status of wxAda

After a long break from wxAda, I'm getting back into looking at it. I've decided to start again and generate the bindings automatically using the 2.9.x interface files. Binding is a difficult proces and this could take some time to acheive.

Simple CGI

On the 2nd April, I finally got around to completing a SCGI implementation in Ada, which turned out easier than expected.

A little update

Ok, it's been a while, mainly because I didn't like what I ended up with with MODx and also the shared hosting was dog slow.

Getting the Samsung YP-P2 working with Ubuntu Gutsy

I have no idea what happened yesterday when I charged it, it charged for only a few minutes then the led turned to green (meaning it's finished) yet there was virtually no charge on the battery indicator.

I charged it last night and it's now at full charge, so I'm happy at the moment.

Deciding on a new MP3 player

I've had an Xclef MT-500 for about 5 years now, but it has a number of problems:

• The battery life is crap and I have to carry around a number of spares.
• internal memory can corrupt easily.
• There are no more firmware updates, and these can easily go wrong cau