AdaCore release GNAT Pro 7.2 has 120 new features

AdaCore announced next major release of its Ada development environment, GNAT Pro 7.2. with more than 120 new features. 7.2 release adds support for Wind River’s VxWorks Cert and LynuxWorks’ LynxOS-178 Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS). It also extends GNAT Pro’s ARM support to now include Android, generic Linux on ARM, Bareboard ARM, and Wind River’s VxWorks 6 on ARM. GNAT Pro 7.2 comes with the GPS (GNAT Programming Studio) 6.0 Integrated Development Environment. It also includes a new version of GNATbench, the Eclipse plug-in. GNATbench 2.8 provides improved support for Wind River’s WorkBench, a new source navigation engine, and improved support for the CodePeer static analysis tool. GNAT Pro 7.2 includes several new tools, including GNAT2XML, which generates XML files from Ada sources and helps developers write Ada analysis tools in any language. Enhancements to existing tools include a new version of GNATpp (pretty printer) with improved Ada layout, and an enhanced GPRbuild multi-purpose builder that offers greater flexibility and support of both distributed and parallel builds. Other new features of GNAT Pro 7.2 include new warnings and improved diagnostics, code generation optimizations, support for symbolic traceback in shared libraries, and improved cross Ada/C++ exception handling. “With so many new features and tools in GNAT Pro 7.2, it’s difficult t...