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From: Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com>
Subject: Re: off-topic ...
Date: 1999/11/19
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In article <38336E5A.D744214E@australia.boeing.com>,
  Peter Milliken <peter.milliken@australia.boeing.com> wrote:

> The only thing Ada vendors can
> "brag" about is either additions wrt the Annexes (which you do
> see as announcements) or bug fixes (which no-one really wants
> to noise about anyway

That's really quite wrong! We have literally hundreds of ideas
for enhancements that come from us and our customers. Each
new version of GNAT has many valuable new features. Here
is a little preview of some new features in the next version
of GNAT for example:

  It is now permissible to specify the non-default Bit_Order
  for record subtypes.  Component clauses for such types must
  either specify an integral number of bytes, or the component
  must lie entirely within one byte.  Note that, in accordance
  with the RM, no reordering of bytes is done, the only effect
  is to renumber bits.  This feature is therefore only of
  limited use in dealing with big/little-endian interfacing.

  The listing generated by the -gnatR switch now includes
  alignment values for array and record types.

  The NT version of GNAT now generates object files that are
  fully compatible with the standard Microsoft linker, so this
  linker can be used instead of the GNU ld program to build NT
  executables.

  New restrictions No_Implicit_Conditionals and
  No_Implicit_Loops have been added for greater control over
  generated code.  This is particularly useful in a
  safety-critical/certification environment using GNORT (GNAT
  with no run time)

  A new package GNAT.Calendar.Time_IO is provided.  This
  package implements formatted output of Ada.Calendar.Time.
  The format string uses a format similar to the one used by
  the date UNIX command.

This is just a small random selection, the list is
already about 50 items long, and we are not yet
at the release point.


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