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From: bourguet@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Ada mode requests (Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java)
Date: 1999/01/27
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In article <78ks1t$253$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  dewar@gnat.com wrote:
> In article <78kk11$qmd$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
>   bourguet@my-dejanews.com wrote:

> > >That's not surprising. I've heard something about ACT
> > >getting involved
> > >with ada-mode from the emacs ada mode mailing list, but
> > >I had hoped they
> > >would separate anything they did from the main code to
> > >allow other
> > >compilers to be used with it.
> >
> > I do not see what prevent the use of this mode to edit
> > ada code for other
> > compilers. As far as I known, the only thing which was
                                                 ^^^^^^^^^
> > not dependant on
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > gnat which will now be unavailable to others people is
> > the stub generation
>
> No, that's wrong, the really important feature is the
> cross-referencing features which are driven by ali files,
> and there is no way of duplicating this kind of Ada
> compiler smart knowledge without an Ada compiler.

I think that the cross reference feature of ada-mode did
already depend on gnat.

> However, the intention is certainly that other features of
> Ada mode can be used without problems.

-- Jean-Marc

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