wanted: Ada diff tool

["Terry Westley" <twestley@buffalo.veridian.com>]

Does anyone know of a difference tool which understands the syntax of Ada?

Here's the context:

We use Clearcase for configuration management.  Clearcase provides a useful
merge facility for reconciling changes to one source file made by multiple
people.

Unfortunately, it's based on a pretty simple diff tool.  Most of the time
it's OK,
but sometimes I'd really like to know if the only changes to a file are
reformatting
or comment changes.  Then I can better make decisions about what needs to
be tested or whether I even want to accept a specific change in certain
releases.

Any suggestions?

I've thought of pretty-printing both files, them comparing the results, but
then
it would be difficult to trace back to the changes in the original file.

So far, I haven't found anything at the code repositories I frequent.

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Terry J. Westley, Software Systems Engineering Supervisor
Veridian Engineering, Calspan Operations
twestley@buffalo.veridian.com   http://www.veridian.com/
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