They do cross-compilers for 'C' (and probably 'C++', these days).
They have been around for a number of years (like 10). I don't know if
they have gone off into other areas, but cross-compilers were their
bread-and-butter. I forget the details, but they were associated
somehow with Microware, at one point. During the late 80s, if you
bought pSOS, you used the Green Hills cross-compilers. In case you
don't know, a cross-compiler allows a programmer to compile software
on one type of processor, say an Intel 486, for execution on another
type of processor, say a Motorola 6809. This is normally how embedded
system development is done, since, in most cases, the processor being
used in the embedded system is not supported by standard desktop OSs,
like UNIX or NT.
Please understand that Green Hills may have newer product lines that
I am unaware of - they may be making toasters now, for all I know.
Hope this helps.
-Dave Lehenky
P.S. I just did a WEB search and Green Hills does Fortran, Pascal,
and Ada, as well as C and C++. They also have their own RTOS. They
support VxWorks/Tornado with their compiler toolset. |
