GNAT: on the road to Ada 2005

The GNAT Development Team is directly involved with the Ada 2005 effort, both participating in the Ada Rapporteur Group (ARG), and implementing and testing the new features proposed for the language revision. In this paper we summarize the Ada 2005 issues already implemented in the development version of GNAT, and give a brief overview of the implementation of the more complex ones. We find that the proposed language enhancements fit well into the existing compiler structure, and present no major implementation hurdles. Categories and Subject Descriptors: D.3.0 [Programming Languages]: General—Ada, D.3.3 [Language Constructs and Features]: abstract data types, classes and objects, packages, data types and structures. General Terms: Languages, Standardization, Reliability.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: SIGADA
• Authors: Javier Miranda, Edmond Schonberg
• Keywords: Ada 2005, Ada 2005 Effort, Ada Rapporteur Group, SIGADA 2004