Re: GNAT Library Reference. Where can I find it?

[Bill Ghrist <ghristwd@pgh.net>]

"Programming in Ada 95", by John Barnes, has a good overview of the
Standard library.  It is not comprehensive, but it will tell you most of
what you want to know, and might make it easier to figure out how to get
the rest of the information from the RM and the .ads files.  Barnes'
book makes a good "reference manual" in general.

Regards,
Bill Ghrist

Robert Schien wrote:
> 
> I want to learn programming in Ada 95. The compiler I'm using
> is GNAT. It seems to be quite powerful and I think the
> GNAT people are doing a good job. The platforms I'm using
> are FreeBSD and Win95/NT.
> 
> Of course, there is a lot of information available (www.adahome.com).
> But what I am missing is a reference manual about the library (
> standard routines). It seems to be contained in the online RM95 manual
> but unfortunately it is NOT in the tar-file gnat-3.10p-src.tar.gz,
> which contains a great user manual and reference manual about
> the language but no short library reference.
> (I grep'ed for the numerical function Sqrt for instance and didn't
> find it)
> 
> Where can I find a library reference manual?
> 
> In order to learn a new programming language it's quite important
> to know what routines (or procedures or packages) are available.
> 
> TIA
> Robert