Re: Ada83 equivalents for Ada95

[bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)]

In article <bbalfour-2805961408500001@stmac0088.std.caci.com>,
Brad Balfour <bbalfour@std.caci.com> wrote:
>There are even tools available that you can purchase which will
>automatically detect these problems in your Ada 83 code.

Which tools are those?

>... May people have
>found that just running the code through an Ada 95 compiler, such as GNAT,
>will detect many (but not all) problems.

Running the code through an Ada 95 compiler, and then executing it,
ought to find the vast majority of problems, I would think.

And as Brad says, there aren't many problems.  The two *worst* problems
are probably:  (1) There are now 256 Characters, instead of 128, and (2)
generic formals need a (<>) to accept an unconstrained array.

- Bob