Welcome to the GNAT Programming System

Version 1.2.2

2003/06/09

Ada Core Technologies

ACT Europe

GPS is a complete integrated development environment that gives access to a wide range of tools and integrates them smoothly, unleashing the full power of GNAT Professional.

Online Documentation

GPS comes with a tutorial that gives an overview of the functionalities by going through a complete session, and a User's Guide documenting each tool and modules.

GPS Features

GPS provides the following features:

Ease of Use
- Modern GUI
- All the tools are integrated together
- Tools communicate with each other
- Contextual menus and shortcuts
- Powerful and flexible window manipulations
- Integrated help system
An Open Technology
- Open Source
- Multi language
- Multi platform
- Customizable
- Integration of external editors
Managing Complexity
- Project explorer with multiple views:
  - A Project/Directory/Source/Entity view
  - A File system/Directory/Source/Entity view
- Project wizard (to create projects easily)
- Project properties dialog with:
  - Name, Languages, Tools
  - VCS configuration
  - Add/Remove source directories
  - Set/Change object & exec directories
  - Add/Remove main files
  - Switch editor (per project or per file)
  - Naming scheme
- Add/Remove project dependencies
- Creation/Use of configuration variables. Any project property can be configured using variables.
- Project hierarchy browser
Improving Quality
- Source pretty printing
- Style checking
- Warnings on potential wrong or dangerous coding
- Possibility to restrict the language constructs allowed
- Run-time checks
  - Detection of uninitialized variables
  - Detection of memory leaks
  - Buffer overflows
  - Invalid memory allocation/deallocation
  - Arithmetic overflows
- Automatic code fixing
- Metrics
- Version control support for ClearCase and CVS, including:
  - Status of files
  - Check in
  - Check out
  - Edit log
  - Annotate files (CVS only)
  - Add/Remove file
  - Revision history
  - Comparison betwen revisions
Improving Productivity
- Integrated editor
  - Source highlighting
  - Automatic indentation
  - Unlimited Undo/Redo
  - Cut/Copy/Paste
  - Jump from error message to source editor
- Easy access to Compile/Build/Run/Check file syntax
- Intelligent source navigation, including:
  - Goto declaration
  - Goto body
  - Goto line
  - Goto file spec/body
  - Goto previous/next location (unlimited)
  - List all references to an entity in current file
  - List all references to an entity in the project
  - Two-ways source dependency browser
  - Two-ways call graph
- Automatic generation of body
- Integrated debugging, including in particular:
  - Run/Step/Next/Finish/Continue
  - Breakpoints (on line, function, exception, ...)
  - Attach to running processes
  - Core file debugging
  - Enhanced display of variables and complex structures
  - Dereference of pointers by a simple mouse click
  - Detection of aliases
  - Display of registers, local variables, arguments
  - Call stack
  - Assembly view
  - Task view
  - Memory view