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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,683d44cd600a8851 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Tom Halliley Subject: Re: Ada-smart diff tool Date: 1997/03/25 Message-ID: <333815FF.AC3@sd.aonix.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 229416504 Sender: news@thomsoft.com (USENET News Admin @flash) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: case References: <9703210420.AA26492@most> Organization: Aonix Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-03-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: I'm unaware of an existing tool that will solve your problem, but there is a technology that helps: ASIS. ASIS (Ada Semantic Interface Specification) is an Ada API (soon to be an ISO standard) provided by some Ada vendors which allows a tool developer to fetch syntactic and semantic information about a compiled Ada program. Hence, one could write an ASIS-based tool that displays a _semantic_ difference between two units, as opposed to a simple lexical/syntactic difference via diff/sdiff/etc. Contact your Ada vendor regarding ASIS and tools built thereupon. TomH ----------------------------------------------------------------------- J. Thomas Halliley | Aonix Principal Software Engineer | 5040 Shoreham Place tomh@sd.aonix.com ___|___ San Diego, CA 92122 619.824.0348