Adacore adds 130 features to Gnat Pro Ada

The Gnat Pro is used by industry and government in mission-critical software products ranging from small-footprint real-time embedded applications to large-scale information-management systems.

The Gnat Pro Ada comprises of a full Ada compiler based on the GNU GCC technology, a comprehensive toolsuite including a visual debugger and a set of libraries and bindings.

Gnat Pro 6.2 is available on 18 native and 28 cross platforms and offers more than 130 new features, including increased support for code coverage and source-to-object traceability, essential for safety-critical and high-reliability application development.

The Gnat Pro 6.2 is also qualified for 146 different environments, including variations of Ada runtimes as well as host and target OS versions.

The enhanced Gnat Pro 6.2 boasts an upgraded Gnat Pro compiler back-end based on GCC 4.3, which enables improved code generation and a debug engine based on GDB 6.8 that enables better debugger performance.

These upgrades offer significant performance gains and allow porting to new architectures.

The Gnat Pro 6.2 features two new tools - the Gnat Ada Java Interfacing Suite (Gnat AJIS) and Gnat Components Collection (Gnatcoll).

Gnat AJIS allows users to combine natively compiled Ada code with Java applications that run on a Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

Gnatcoll is a suite of reusable software components comprising packages developed by Adacore for the implementation of the Gnat compiler and toolset.