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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a5449b9a03812b50 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-07-29 18:51:20 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.tufts.edu!uunet!dca.uu.net!ash.uu.net!xyzzy!nntp From: James Squire Subject: Re: GNAT documentation question X-Nntp-Posting-Host: pls017031.mw.nos.boeing.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <3D45EC81.6B2ED277@boeing.com> Sender: nntp@news.boeing.com (Boeing NNTP News Access) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: The Boeing Company X-Accept-Language: en References: <3D406C6B.9DE867E4@boeing.com> <5ee5b646.0207281028.607ea804@posting.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 01:31:45 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-CCK-MCD Boeing Kit (Windows NT 5.0; U) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:27467 Date: 2002-07-30T01:31:45+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > > James Squire wrote in message news:<3D406C6B.9DE867E4@boeing.com>... > > A.13.15 says: > > The implementation shall document the conditions under which > > Name_Error, Use_Error and Device_Error are propagated. > > > > I've looked through the GNAT Reference Manual and I can't find this > > anywhere. Can anyone point me to where it is? > > Easy to point to! The detailed documentation for such > details is always in the sources. These sources are very > much part of the documentation for questions like this. > This has the advantage of providing absolutely precise, > complete and up to date documentation of implementation > details like this. I've been all through a-textio.ads and a-textio.adb, and I see a comment about explicitly raising Constraint_Error, but that's it. I'm not sure what you are referring to here. I'm used to seeing a comment block preceding a procedure or function spec documenting among other things what exceptions can be raised by this routine and why. -- James Squire Software Engineering Tools and Environments Boeing St. Louis Work: (314)-232-7010 Work@Home: (314)-831-4812 Pager#: (314)-318-2376