:> >>Well, why not port gnat/gcc to the :> >>chip first, and find out if compiled code can "fit" and run? THEN if it :> >>doesn't, think about what to leave out. :> :> someone here attempted that with gnat. :> the runtime did not fit on his 128k 68k board. :> it barely fits in 256k, and big as it is, it still doesn't do :> what he wanted it to do, in interrupt handling. :> obviously he stripped out as much crud as he could. :> it is not straightforward to strip it down, not least because it is :> very big and very complicated. since i've written a reasonably lean :> ada run-time implementation for ada83, it's hard for me to imagine :> why this one is as big as it is. :> if Ada95 really requires this much, you can pretty much forget it as a language for :> embedded systems controllers, at least where gnat is concerned. Well, at least we have some evidence instead of just predictions! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- W. Wesley Groleau (Wes) Office: 219-429-4923 Hughes Defense Communications (MS 10-40) Home: 219-471-7206 Fort Wayne, IN 46808 (Unix): [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------