Ada Programming/Ada 2022


This is an overview of the major features that are available in Ada 2022, the most recent version of the Ada standard.


Summary of what's new

New profile

Jorvik is a subset of the Ada tasking capabilities, similar to Ravenscar and which imposes fewer restrictions, removing the following ones compared to the Ravenscar profile:

  • No_Implicit_Heap_Allocations
  • No_Relative_Delay
  • Simple_Barriers
  • Max_Entry_Queue_Length => 1
  • Max_Protected_Entries => 1
  • No_Dependence => Ada.Calendar
  • No_Dependence => Ada.Synchronous_Barriers

New syntax

  • Assignment target name @
  • Square brackets for array aggregates
  • Default initial conditions for types
  • Default generic parameters
  • Declare expressions
  • Reduction expressions
  • Iteration filters
  • Generalized literals

New keywords

New pragmas

  • Admission_Policy
  • All_Calls_Remote
  • Conflict_Check_Policy
  • Elaborate_Body
  • Generate_Deadlines
  • Preelaborable_Initialization
  • Preelaborate
  • Profile now supports the Jorvik profile
  • Pure
  • Remote_Call_Interface
  • Remote_Types
  • Shared_Passive

New aspects

  • Aggregate
  • Allows_Exit
  • Default_Initial_Condition
  • Dispatching
  • Elaborate_Body
  • Full_Access_Only
  • Global
  • Global'Class
  • Integer_Literal
  • Iterator_View
  • Max_Entry_Queue_Length
  • No_Controlled_Parts
  • No_Return (for functions)
  • Nonblocking
  • Parallel_Calls
  • Parallel_Iterator
  • Preelaborable_Initialization
  • Put_Image
  • Real_Literal
  • Relative_Deadline
  • Stable_Properties
  • Stable_Properties'Class
  • Static
  • Static_Predicate
  • String_Literal
  • Synchronization
  • Use_Formal
  • Yield

New attributes

New packages

See also

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