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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: GNAT listing file default names (was: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses)
Date: 1999/09/29
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In article <7stris$k6t$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:
> In article <1999Sep29.074624.1@eisner>,
>   Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam wrote:

>> To me /LISTING=[MYDIR.LISTINGS] doesn't seem complex, but we
> digress.
> 
> You miss the point, the above VMS quote is NOT about
> redirection, but about using a specific parameter. What I
> was saying was that in Unix and DOS-like systems, redirection
> is so easy that one tends to use it extensively. Since general
> redirection is not nearly so easy in VMS, it is less used.

I interpret this as saying that you dislike the VMS implementation
of PIPE.  Let me know if there is something more to it, but I (we)
digress.

> In GNAT, to get a "listing" file, we simply do
> 
>   -gnatl >mydir.listings
> 
> which is pretty straightforward ...

> Trivial commands can put this in one file, many files etc etc,

I take it then that this is postprocessing, similar to what I
read described as the Gnat Chop utility.

> A GNAT generated assembly file with embedded line number
> information will indeed give you the information you need,
> or alternatively you can use a tool like objdump to get
> the information you need.

My presumption would be that the former method would include the
line-numbered source (under some combination of qualifiers) but
the objdump method would not.  Is that correct ?

Larry Kilgallen