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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Subject: Re: ALI Files Cross-References Inconsistency?
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 15:33:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86a6xd5vwc.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: rklgpl$1fgp$1@gioia.aioe.org

"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> On 25/09/2020 18:16, Stephen Leake wrote:
>> Leandro Ribeiro <leandrobribeiro@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> I am currently analyzing .ali files.
>> Be aware that AdaCore is moving away from ali files for cross
>> referencing; that functionality is now provided by libadalang.
>
> Can you elaborate? 

GNATStudio uses libadalang when navigating between files; it does not
use the .ali files.

> Presently we keep ALI files as build artifacts. Object files are not
> enough in order to avoid recompilation.

Ok, so .ali files will not go away entirely. But they may lose all their
cross-reference info.

-- 
-- Stephe

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-25 22:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-13 15:24 ALI Files Cross-References Inconsistency? Leandro Ribeiro
2020-08-13 15:55 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2020-08-13 21:18   ` Simon Wright
2020-08-14 19:45     ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2020-08-13 17:17 ` Egil H H
2020-08-14  8:11   ` Leandro Ribeiro
2020-08-14 16:35     ` Per Sandberg
2020-08-14 17:23       ` Simon Wright
2020-08-15  7:56         ` J-P. Rosen
2020-08-14 19:47     ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2020-09-25 16:16 ` Stephen Leake
2020-09-25 19:35   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-09-25 22:33     ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2020-09-26  8:03       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-09-30  9:53 ` wj46633
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