Content by Emmanuel Briot
Emmanuel Briot
Emmanuel Briot has been with AdaCore between 1998 and 2017. He has been involved in a variety of projects, in particular oriented towards graphical user interfaces, including GtkAda, GPS, XML/Ada, GnatTracker and our internal CRM. He holds an engineering degree from the Ecole Nationale des Telecommunications (Brest, France).
A Usable Copy-Paste Detector in A Few Lines of Python
After we created lightweight checkers based on the recent Libadalang technology developed at AdaCore, a colleague gave us the challenge of creating a…
User-friendly strings API
New strings package in GNATCOLL
This post describes the new GNATCOLL.Strings package, and the various optimizations it performs to provide improved performance.
Integrate new tools in GPS (2)
Integrate new tools in GPS
This blog, the first in a series, explains the basic mechanisms that GPS (the GNAT Programming Studio) provides to integrate external tools. A small…
GNAT On macOS Sierra
GNAT and all the tools work great on the newly released macOS Sierra, but gdb needs some tweaking of the system.
Debugger improvements in GPS 17
The GNAT Programming Studio support for the debugger has been enhanced. This post describes the various changes you can expect in this year's new…
GNAT Programming Studio (GPS) on GitHub
The GPS source repository has been published on GitHub. This post briefly describes how you can access it, and hopefully contribute.
Bookmarks in the GNAT Programming Studio (GPS)
As we improve existing views in GPS, we discover new ways to use them. This post shows some of the improvements done recently in the Bookmarks view,…
Calling inherited subprograms in Ada
This short post describes an idiom that can be used to help maintain complex hierarchies of tagged types, when methods need to call the parent types…
Traits-Based Containers
This post describes the design of a new containers library. It highlights some of the limitations of the standard Ada containers, and proposes a new…