Re: chopping Ada source that have preprocessor symbols in them

[Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

On 09.02.13 21:15, Simon Wright wrote:
> Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> writes:
>
>> The problem is that running the chain of tools again and again is
>> prohibitively inefficient.  It boils down to recompiling the world
>> after each edit.
>
> You could try the gnatmake (and, I think, gprbuild) flag -m:

Promising, but there is a catch.

As Björn said, the compiler should ideally be able to refer to the
original source file as usual. Now, while switch -m does have the desired
effect when chaining the three steps gnatprep && gnatchop && gnatmake,
the compiler messages will in the end refer to the intermediate file
that gnatprep will have created. Not ideal, unless I can convince
the IDE that it should automatically substitute the original file's
name for the name of the intermediate file when inspecting the
compiler's diagnostics. A kludge, but maybe a possibility.

The alternative switch -gnatep would obviate the need for gnatprep
but will, alas, cancel the effect of switch -m, AFAICS. (In cases
when gnatchop will compute usable offsets.)