GCC 6.1 was released this week. The Ada Framework in FreeBSD ports has
been based on GCC 5.3 GNAT although GCC 6.x has been supported for awhile
via the ADA_DEFAULT option in make.conf.
Now that GCC 6 has been officially released, switch to it by default.
People can maintain the old foundation by putting "ADA_DEFAULT=5" in
/etc/make.conf.
Libraries built by one GNAT are unusable by another, so almost every Ada
port has been bumped as a result. Noticable exceptions are dns/ironsides
which fails to build on gcc6 (thus USES=ada:5 is set) and cad/ghdl which
needs additional testing as it may require gcc5 on FreeBSD (DragonFly
uses the LLVM backend only).
The Generic Image Decoder (GID) is an Ada package for decoding a broad
variety on image formats from any data stream to any kind of medium.
Examples include in-memory bitmap, a GUI objecct, another stream, floating
point data for scientific calculations, a browser element or a device.
Animations are also supported. GID features:
* Standalone; requires no other libraries or bindings
* Completely portable - no OS, CPU, or compiler dependencies
* Task safe
* Endian-neutral
* Free and open source
* Pure Ada95 (suitable for Ada2005 and Ada2012 projects)
Currently supports BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG and TGA formats.
WWW: http://gen-img-dec.sourceforge.net/
