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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.42.88.81 with SMTP id b17mr21560160icm.2.1421013074568; Sun, 11 Jan 2015 13:51:14 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.140.22.48 with SMTP id 45mr552520qgm.5.1421013074350; Sun, 11 Jan 2015 13:51:14 -0800 (PST) Path: border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!h15no2355862igd.0!news-out.google.com!qk8ni2672igc.0!nntp.google.com!f12no484750qad.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 13:51:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=50.138.174.211; posting-account=AvekzAoAAABj-TclKcOWQmXwA49MFPGX NNTP-Posting-Host: 50.138.174.211 References: <5fc3a42d-f922-4e34-ab30-59613b980fb6@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <80c5130e-67fa-461c-b5fa-ad40d2367c27@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Multiple procedures in the same adb file? From: John Smith Injection-Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 21:51:14 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: number.nntp.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:191847 Date: 2015-01-11T13:51:14-08:00 List-Id: 37,000,000 lines of code? What was the application supposed to do? Simulate planet earth? On Sunday, January 11, 2015 at 4:02:21 PM UTC-5, Robert A Duff wrote: > John Smith writes: > > > Thanks, that was really helpful. > > You're welcome. > > >... I got it to work by making the appropriate *.ads and *.adb files. > >I also had it working as a nested function. > > > > It seems a tad tedious at first, ... > > Yes, it's a nuisance for small programs. But for large programs, > one compilation_unit per file with a file-naming convention is > really the only sensible way. But I must admit, I'd prefer GNAT > to be able to handle multiple compilation_units per file without > so much horsing around. > > That's partly because when I'm debugging GNAT, I'm often working > with very small test programs. If a customer hands me a huge > program that causes GNAT to crash, I'll usually try debugging > it directly first, but if I can't figure it out quickly that way, > I'll try making a small cut-down test that crashes in the same way. > If the small test case contains 30 lines of code in 5 files, > that's just a nuisance. So I use gnatchop. > > Most bug reports are already small. The biggest one I had to > deal with at AdaCore was about 37,000,000 lines of code. > > > ...but it does make sense. Heck, even C/C++ recommends a similar > > approach. You want to separate the declaration from the > > implementation. > > Right, same idea. > > - Bob