Re: string literals

[re@waporo.muc.de (Rolf Ebert)]

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard G Hash <rgh@shell.com> writes:

Richard> In <3fbtgk$501@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Richard> writes:
>>  Also, Keith says that it is as hard to look at a variable and know
>> where it came from as [...]
>> 
>> Nonsense, the first question can be answered by a trivial tool, you
>> should indeed be able to click on an identifier and have a window pop
>> up with the declaration. [...]

Richard> Since this tool will be so "trivial", I hope you plan on
Richard> including it in the GNAT effort. Can we expect it by, oh, say,
Richard> next month?

Richard> 1/2 ;-)

It's already there! 

Try Emacs with the latest Ada Mode on cs.nyu.edu:/pub/gnat.  It contains
a support mode for the gnat Xreferencer GNATF.  Click with the mouse on
an identifier, Emacs will place your cursor at its declaration. The tool
knows everthing about overloading, record fields, etc.

The current release 2.12 of the Ada Mode has a problem, if the xref
information is not immidiately available (i.e. must be regenerated). 
This will be fixed in the upcoming 2.13.

Richard> -- Richard G. Hash email: rgh@shell.com Shell Development
Richard> Company, Bellaire Research Center phone: (713) 245-7311 Member
Richard> Team Ada Free Ada95 compilers: cs.nyu.edu:/pub/gnat

	Rolf


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