AdaCore Releases Major New Version of GNAT Programming Studio

“This new version of GPS strengthens support for tools and processes that are important for full life cycle application development,” said Arnaud Charlet, GPS Project Manager at AdaCore. “Large applications are almost always developed using multiple languages, so we have extended GPS’s facilities in this area. Large or long-lived applications need analysis tools and configuration management system integration, so we have also improved GPS’s support here. This new version is simply more powerful in areas that our customers have asked for.”



Enhancements in GPS 5.1 include:



Improved support for C and C++:

Smart completion for C and C++ using -fdump-xref info

Ada-to-C source navigation

Improved CodePeer support :

Availability of score card feature

Improved filtering

Locations view now synched with CodePeer report

Ability to specify alternate database/output directories

Availability of race condition report

New facility for handling VCS menus:

All VCS menus are now handled in a centralized place allowing customization of the layout of all VCS menus

Availability of additional automatic code fixes

Enhanced documentation generation:

Ability to export browser contents to PDF

Improved GUI integration and performance:

Enhancement of multiple document interface (MDI), search support, and code browsers.



GPS 5.1 is compatible with GNAT Pro versions 3.16a1 up to 6.4. As with all GNAT Pro components, GPS is distributed with full source code and is backed by AdaCore’s rapid and expert online support.



About GNAT Programming Studio (GPS)

GPS is a powerful Integrated Development Environment (IDE) written in Ada using the GtkAda toolkit. GPS’s extensive source-code navigation and analysis tools can generate a broad range of useful information, including call graphs, source dependencies, project organization, and complexity metrics. It also supports configuration management through an interface to third-party Version Control Systems, and is available on a variety of platforms. GPS is highly extensible; a simple scripting approach enables additional tool integration. It is also customizable, allowing programmers to specialize various aspects of the program’s appearance in the editor for a user-specified look and feel.



Pricing and Availability

GPS 5.1 is included with the GNAT Pro Ada Development Environment as well as the SPARK Pro and CodePeer Pro toolsets, and customers can download it via the GNAT Tracker tool.