Ada · Expert

Lesson 1 · On the house

SPARK: provable Ada

SPARK_Mode, Global and Depends contracts, loop invariants, and what gnatprove proves.

Lesson 2

Real-time tasks

Ada.Real_Time clocks, periodic tasks with delay until, priorities, and drift-free scheduling.

Lesson 3

Custom storage pools

Control allocation with Root_Storage_Pool subclasses, arenas, and Storage_Size.

Lesson 4

Interfacing with C

Import and Export aspects, Convention C, Interfaces.C types, and C strings.

Lesson 5

User-defined iteration

Make for ... of work on your own types with Default_Iterator, Iterator_Element, and indexing aspects.

Lesson 6

Formal packages and signature generics

Pass whole generic instances as parameters to build layered, reusable abstractions.

Lesson 7

Streams and serialization

'Write, 'Read, 'Output, 'Input attributes with Stream_IO, and custom stream representations.

Lesson 8

Fixed-point and decimal types

Ordinary fixed-point with delta, decimal types with digits, and exact money arithmetic.

Lesson 9

Barriers and suspension objects

Synchronous_Barriers to release groups of tasks together and Suspension_Object signals.

Lesson 10

Validity, checks, and overflow

'Valid for untrusted data, check suppression, overflow modes, and when to turn checks off.