GNAT User’s Guide for Native Platforms: What This Guide Contains

This guide contains the following chapters:

* Getting Started with GNAT describes how to get started compiling and running Ada programs with the GNAT Ada programming environment.
* The GNAT Compilation Model describes the compilation model used by GNAT.
* Building Executable Programs with GNAT describes how to use the main GNAT tools to build executable programs, and it also gives examples of using the GNU make utility with GNAT.
* GNAT Project Manager describes how to use project files to organize large projects.
* Tools Supporting Project Files described how to use the project facility in conjunction with various GNAT tools.
* GNAT Utility Programs explains the various utility programs that are included in the GNAT environment
* GNAT and Program Execution covers a number of topics related to running, debugging, and tuning the performace of programs developed with GNAT

Appendices cover several additional topics:

* Platform-Specific Information describes the different run-time library implementations and also presents information on how to use GNAT on several specific platforms
* Example of Binder Output File shows the source code for the binder output file for a sample program.
* Elaboration Order Handling in GNAT describes how GNAT helps you deal with elaboration order issues.
* Inline Assembler shows how to use the inline assembly facility in an Ada program.