ADA EUROPE NEWS ISSUE NO 20


Editorial                                                           1

Ada Revision Achieves International Standardisation                 2

The Saga of the Ada 9X Team                                         3

The GNAT Compiler                                                   4
     Origins and History of GNAT                                    4 
     The GNAT Project: A GNU-Ada9X Compiler                         10
     The GNAT Compilation Model                                     20
     Ada9X Tagged Types and their Implementation in GNAT            33
     Integrating GNAT into GCC                                      44
     Features for the GNU Ada Runtime Library                       53

Meetings and Conferences                                            64
     Ada in Europe 1995                                             64
     TRI-Ada 95                                                     66

Brief News Items                                                    70
     Ada in the Hong Kong Urban Rail System                         70
     GW-GNAT First Release                                          70
     Silicon Graphics Integrates GNAT with Powerful Software        70

Tools                                                               71
     Ada Success Stories                                            71
     IPL's AdaTEST Product Qualified for Boeing 777                 72
     First two ISO Standards for Ada Packages                       72
     Hot Ada: a Hypertext Course in Object Technology and Ada9X     73

Calendar                                                            74