From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,67ca96c42837a9ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Getting GNAT to issue ARM error messages Date: 1999/02/10 Message-ID: <1999Feb10.073547.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 442782841 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: eisner.decus.org References: <79oj1f$e8p$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Trace: news.decus.org 918650151 1633 KILGALLEN [192.67.173.2] Organization: LJK Software Reply-To: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , davidp!nospam!@!nospam!syd.csa.com.au (David Peterson) writes: > In article <79oj1f$e8p$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com writes: >> In article , >> 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