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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,683d44cd600a8851 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)" Subject: Re: Ada-smart diff tool Date: 1997/03/31 Message-ID: <9703311411.AA06042@most>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 229686686 Sender: Ada programming language Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-03-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > 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). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- W. Wesley Groleau (Wes) Office: 219-429-4923 Hughes Defense Communications (MS 10-41) Home: 219-471-7206 Fort Wayne, IN 46808 (Unix): wwgrol@pseserv3.fw.hac.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------