GNAT Ada Compiler
Includes an Ada front-end, the GCC code generator, the binder, linker, and run-time library. The software has the ability to build standalone static and dynamic libraries ad provides interfacing to C, C++, and Java.
Overview
The GNAT Ada compiler includes an Ada front-end, the GCC code generator, the binder, linker, and run-time library. All of these components, except for the code generator, are written in Ada, and are completely target-independent. The code generator is the GCC back-end. The interface between the front-end and the GCC back-end is a tree transducer, which translates the language-specific intermediate representation produced by the Ada front-end into the language-independent tree language that GCC expects.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Automatic make facility (gnatmake)
- Ability to build standalone static and dynamic libraries
- Interfacing to C, C++, and Java
- Detection of uninitialized variables
- Support for style checking
- Fine-grained control of program elaboration
- Choice between zero-cost and longjmp/setjmp exceptions
- Ability to view how Ada constructs are compiled
- Ability to view memory layout of types and objects
- Machine code insertions
- Extensive set of warnings to catch likely errors
- Informative error messages
- Flexible file naming support
- Support for programmatic debug control
