ANNOUNCE: Free GNU Ada Run-Time Book (version 1.0)

[Javier Miranda <javiermirandag@netscape.net>]

   I am glad to announce version 1.0 of my free book on the GNAT
Run-Time. It is already available at:

             http://gnat.webhop.info
             http://www.iuma.ulpgc.es/users/jmiranda

   The first address is an "easy-to-remember" access to the second
address, which is my personal web page.

The major contributions of this version are:

   - The document is now integrated with the GNAT 3.15p sources.

   - 176 hyper-links to the GNAT sources have been added
     (previous version had 126 hyper-links; the new version has
      302 hyper-links). This simplifies the use of the book to
      read the GNAT sources.

   - 23 bugs reported by Jose Gonzalez Rodriguez (student of the
     University of Almeria, Spain) have been corrected.

   - The English text has been improved by professor David Shea
     (Faculty of Translation and Interpretation, University of
      Las Palmas de Gran Canaria).

   - A new index has been added at the end of the book. This index
     provides a fast access to any concept discussed in the book.

In addition, the access to the HTML version of the GNAT sources
is now faster than in previous beta versions.


--- Javier Miranda

University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Canary Islands
Spain



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 Title      : A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE GNU ADA RUN-TIME
 Version    : 1.0
 Last Update: December, 14, 2002
 Author     : Javier Miranda
 Access     : http://www.iuma.ulpgc.es/users/jmiranda
 Chapters   :
   1. The GNAT Project
   2. Task Types and Objects
   3. The Rendezvous
   4. Protected Objects
   5. Time and clocks
   6. Interrupts (upgraded)
   7. Exceptions
   8. Abortion
   9. Bibliography.
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 Goal:

  To provide the Ada community an On-line book which can
  be used for research and teaching.

 Brief Description:

  HTML Document which describes the behavior of the
  Run-Time of the free GNU Ada compiler (GNAT). Its main
  features are:

  - It is free. Permission is granted to copy, distribute
    and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU
    Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later
    version published by the Free Software Foundation.

  - The html version of the document is linked with the
    html version of the GNAT 3.15p run-time sources. More
    than 300 hyper-links provide fast access to the source
    files.

  - All html files of the GNAT sources are also inter-linked.
    This enables the reader a quick access to:
      1. Declaration of Run-Time variables and types.
      2. Subprograms called (thus the web navigator can
         be used to follow the flow of execution of the
         Run-Time).

  - It is linked with the Annotated Ada Reference Manual
    (Technical Corrigendum 1). Any reference to the AARM
    has a link to the corresponding section.

  - Most of the papers referenced to in the book are
    accessible from the NEC CiteSeer Scientific Literature
    Digital Library (http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs)

  - The book is also available in PostScript, PDF and DVI
    files for printing. In this case, references to
    GNAT source files are placed in footnotes.

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Javier Miranda. Canary Islands (Spain), 2002.