Blog Posts 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).
Yannick Moy, Emmanuel Briot, Nicolas Roche
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…
Emmanuel Briot
User-friendly strings API
Emmanuel Briot
New strings package in GNATCOLL
This post describes the new GNATCOLL.Strings package, and the various optimizations it performs to provide improved performance.
Emmanuel Briot
Integrate new tools in GPS (2)
Emmanuel Briot
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…
Emmanuel Briot
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.
Emmanuel Briot
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…
Emmanuel Briot
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.
Emmanuel Briot
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,…
Emmanuel Briot
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…
Emmanuel Briot
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…
Emmanuel Briot