GNAT Pro Safety-Critical Development Environment Released for LynxOS-178

AdaCore has announced a new target platform for the latest version of its GNAT Pro Safety-Critical Ada Development Environment. Hosted on Windows workstations, GNAT Pro Safety-Critical V7.2 is now targeted to the LynuxWorks LynxOS-178 V2.2.2 RTOS for PowerPC, and supports both ARINC-653 APEX partitions and POSIX pthreads. GNAT Pro Safety-Critical includes the standard GNAT Pro components – the GNAT Programming Studio (GPS) and GNATbench IDEs and accompanying toolset – along with specialized tools and run-time libraries oriented towards applications that have to meet demanding software safety standards, such as DO-178B or DO-178C for avionics. With GNAT Pro Safety-Critical for LynxOS-178, developers who need to deliver high-assurance applications on this LynuxWorks RTOS now have an integrated and full-functioned toolsuite that implements all versions of the Ada language, including Ada 2012, and is backed by AdaCore’s expert support. GNAT Pro Safety-Critical includes two static analysis tools that are especially valuable in a certification context. GNATstack predicts the maximum stack usage for each task in an application, directly supporting DO-178B objective A-5(6), “Source code is accurate and consistent”. GNATcheck enforces a customer-tailorable set of rules comprising a project-specific coding standard, directly supporting DO-178B objective A-5(4), “Source code conforms t...