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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8c2209656cc44d38 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-26 06:44:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BD96830.1FFA30AF@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wwgrol@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Emacs and Ada. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 08:42:08 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1004103734 151.168.144.162 (Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:42:14 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:42:14 EDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15238 Date: 2001-10-26T08:42:08-05:00 List-Id: Wannabe h4x0r wrote: > Also, does Ada-Mode provide a facility for automatically cross-referencing > compiler messages with the relavant language documentation? Such a feature would be compiler-specific, to the format of the particular vendor's diagnostics. If my ancient Ada-83 experience is still valid, for some compilers, the reference in the error message is completely useless. And the best diagnostics come from GNAT, which does not put in RM references usually (because they mean nothing to newbies). Instead, they actually explain the problem. Some vendors code diagnostic messages that are perfectly clear only to the compiler coders. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau