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Building RTEMS
 
==============
 
See the file README.configure.
 
 
 
Directory Overview
 
==================
 
 
 
This is the top level of the RTEMS directory structure.  The following
 
is a description of the files and directories in this directory:
 
 
 
  INSTALL
 
    Rudimentary installation instructions.  For more detailed
 
    information please see the Release Notes.  The Postscript
 
    version of this manual can be found in the file
 
    c_or_ada/doc/relnotes.tgz.
 
 
 
  LICENSE
 
    Required legalese.
 
 
 
  README
 
    This file.
 
 
 
  c
 
    This directory contains the source code for the C
 
    implementation of RTEMS as well as the test suites, sample
 
    applications, Board Support Packages, Device Drivers, and
 
    support libraries.
 
 
 
  doc
 
    This directory contains the PDL for the RTEMS executive.
 
 
 
Ada versus C
 
============
 
 
 
There are two implementations of RTEMS in this source tree --
 
in Ada and in C.  These two implementations are functionally
 
and structurally equivalent.  The C implementation follows
 
the packaging conventions and hiearchical nature of the Ada
 
implementation.  In addition, a style has been followed which
 
allows one to easily find the corresponding Ada and C
 
implementations.
 
 
 
File names in C and code placement was carefully designed to insure
 
a close mapping to the Ada implementation.  The following file name
 
extensions are used:
 
 
 
   .adb - Ada body
 
   .ads - Ada specification
 
   .adp - Ada body requiring preprocessing
 
   .inc - include file for .adp files
 
 
 
   .c   - C body (non-inlined routines)
 
   .inl - C body (inlined routines)
 
   .h   - C specification
 
 
 
In the executive source, XYZ.c and XYZ.inl correspond directly to a
 
single XYZ.adb or XYZ.adp file.  A .h file corresponds directly to
 
the .ads file.  There are only a handful of .inc files in the
 
Ada source and these are used to insure that the desired simple
 
inline textual expansion is performed.  This avoids scoping and
 
calling convention side-effects in carefully constructed tests
 
which usually test context switch behavior.
 
 
 
In addition, in Ada code and data name references are always fully
 
qualified as PACKAGE.NAME.  In C, this convention is followed
 
by having the package name as part of the name itself and using a
 
capital letter to indicate the presence of a "." level.  So we have
 
PACKAGE.NAME in Ada and _Package_Name in C.  The leading "_" in C
 
is used to avoid naming conflicts between RTEMS and user variables.
 
By using these conventions, one can easily compare the C and Ada
 
implementations.
 
 
 
The most noticeable difference between the C and Ada83 code is
 
the inability to easily obtain a "typed pointer" in Ada83.
 
Using the "&" operator in C yields a pointer with a specific type.
 
The 'Address attribute is the closest feature in Ada83.  This
 
returns a System.Address and this must be coerced via Unchecked_Conversion
 
into an access type of the desired type.  It is easy to view
 
System.Address as similar to a "void *" in C, but this is not the case.
 
A "void *" can be assigned to any other pointer type without an
 
explicit conversion.
 
 
 
The solution adopted to this problem was to provide two routines for
 
each access type in the Ada implementation -- one to convert from
 
System.Address to the access type and another to go the opposite
 
direction.  This results in code which accomplishes the same thing
 
as the corresponding C but it is easier to get lost in the clutter
 
of the apparent subprogram invocations than the "less bulky"
 
C equivalent.
 
 
 
A related difference is the types which are only in Ada which are used
 
for pointers to arrays.  These types do not exist and are not needed
 
in the C implementation.

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