From: "W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)" <wwgrol@PSESERV3.FW.HAC.COM>
Subject: Re: Ada-smart diff tool
Date: 1997/03/31
Date: 1997-03-31T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9703311411.AA06042@most> (raw)
> ASIS (Ada Semantic Interface Specification) is an Ada API
> (soon to be an ISO standard) provided by some Ada vendors which
> allows a tool developer to fetch syntactic and semantic information
> about a compiled Ada program. Hence, one could write an ASIS-based
> tool that displays a _semantic_ difference between two units, as
> opposed to a simple lexical/syntactic difference via diff/sdiff/etc.
ASIS is a Good Thing. But can it do such a comparison between two
versions of the _same_ unit?
FWIW, diff/sdiff are _not_ adequate, since they can be fooled by
one space vs. no space and by line breaks (at the syntax level).
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1997-03-31 0:00 ` Ada-smart diff tool Robert Dewar
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1997-03-22 0:00 ` James D. Veale
1997-03-24 0:00 ` Jeff
1997-03-25 0:00 ` Tom Halliley
1997-03-20 0:00 W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1997-03-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-25 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
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