Re: lint tool for Ada?

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In article <19930701.105001.319@almaden.ibm.com> jnestoriak@vnet.IBM.COM writes
:
>>How about it compiler vendors? The only third-party tool that responded neede
d POSIX
>>and ASIS compliance. Either the compilers need to go this route so that third
-party
>>software can make Ada programmers lives less miserable, or provide toolsets t
hat
>>actually provided the functionality we need.
>
>There was a panel discussion on tools like this at WADAS yesterday.  I
>gather that for any meaningful analysis of the code ASIS is needed (or
>it will have to be compiler specific) because you need to get at the
>sublib .........

Or the tool (as the only two I've ever seen do) can parse the Ada source code 
itself.  Basically a compiler front-end with a report writer in place of a code
 generator.