Welcome to the GNAT Programming Studio
Version 5.3.0
AdaCore
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 Pro.
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
   
 
- 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
   
- Generic Version Control support (with built-in support for Subversion, CVS, GIT and ClearCase), 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
      
- Smart code completion
      
 
- Easy access to Compile/Build/Run/Check file syntax, fully customizable
   
- Intelligent source navigation, including:
      
      - Goto declaration (including support for dispatching calls)
      
- Goto body (including support for dispatching calls)
      
- 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, with many filters
      
- 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
      
 
 
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