From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Getting GNAT to issue ARM error messages
Date: 1999/02/10
Date: 1999-02-10T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1999Feb10.073547.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: F6xCoB.Cny@syd.csa.com.au
In article <F6xCoB.Cny@syd.csa.com.au>, davidp!nospam!@!nospam!syd.csa.com.au (David Peterson) writes:
> In article <79oj1f$e8p$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com writes:
>> In article <F6tqMF.Lz7@syd.csa.com.au>,
>> davidp!nospam!@!nospam!syd.csa.com.au wrote:
>> > Dear All,
>> >
>> > Can anybody tell me if/how it is possible to make the
>> > GNAT Ada compiler issue references to the Ada Reference
>> > Manual rather than, or in addition to, the regular error
>> > messages issued by the compiler ?
>>
>> > I know that other Ada compilers such as Vertix and VADS
>> > can do this
>>
>> Actually the latter are the wrong comparison points, since
>> these are Ada 83 compilers, and in our view the situation
>> with Ada 95 is quite different from Ada 83.
>>
>
> That is an interesting perspective. I have always considered Ada 95 as a
> superset and extension of Ada 83 (with improvements and fixes), rather than
> as a *new* language per se. With so much of the language common between the
> two variants, I didn't consider the comparison of two Ada compilers (one 83,
> the other 95) on features not related to Ada 95 language issues to be "wrong" or
> unfair.
Robert's point is not that the two generations of the Ada language
are so different, but that the Reference Manuals for those are so
different. While a compiler referring a newcomer to a page in the
Ada83 reference manual is quite helpful, a compiler referring a
newcomer to a page in the Ada95 reference manual could lead to
confusion because of the way that book is written.
Larry Kilgallen
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-08 0:00 Getting GNAT to issue ARM error messages David Peterson
1999-02-09 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-10 0:00 ` David Peterson
1999-02-10 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1999-02-12 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-12 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-02-13 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-13 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-14 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-14 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-15 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-15 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-02-16 0:00 ` steve quinlan
1999-02-17 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-02-17 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-02-17 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-18 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-18 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-02-18 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-02-18 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-18 0:00 ` David Brown
1999-02-17 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-17 0:00 ` steve quinlan
1999-02-18 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-02-15 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-02-16 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-18 0:00 ` Alexy V Khrabrov
1999-02-14 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-20 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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