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From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Ada Type Information
Date: 1999/03/09
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In article <36E3DAB9.7D492027@lmco.com>,
  Sam Carnicelli <samuel.charles.carnicelli@lmco.com>
wrote:
> This tells me the layout of the record, but not the types
> of the components.  Assume I was trying to write a
> graphical debugger and wanted to display an object of
> this type to the user.  Would this data be sufficient?  I
> would also need type information.  If one of the
> components of record type r was itelf a record, I would
> need to decompose it further, and so on...

Semantic information of this kind is of course available
via the ASIS interface (that is the purpose of this
interface). Put together with the -gnatR information,
it will give you what you want

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