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

[Patrick]

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? 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