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From: Shark8 <OneWingedShark@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Functions vs constants
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 20:36:39 -0600
Date: 2014-07-25T20:36:39-06:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YuEAv.61234$pu5.39061@fx27.iad> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lqsn9b$abl$1@loke.gir.dk>

On 24-Jul-14 22:43, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> It simply was too hard for a tool that primarily
> does text-level analysis. Indeed, I can't imagine that they could have
> reasonably implemented Ada visibility rules (short of basing their tools on
> ASIS or some specific Ada compiler) -- it's just too hard of a project. I'm
> sure doing that wasn't a priority for them, the priority would have been the
> proof facilities.


Programs shouldn't be analyzed as text, too many "Why can't I parse XML 
with RegEx!?" posts on programming-help sites [like StackOverflow] point 
to this.

and isn't this what DIANA was intended for: to provide access to the 
actual structure of the program [essentially] independent of the text?


  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-26  2:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-21 21:18 Functions vs constants Victor Porton
2014-07-21 21:28 ` Victor Porton
2014-07-21 21:49   ` Shark8
2014-07-21 21:52     ` Victor Porton
2014-07-21 21:59       ` Adam Beneschan
2014-07-21 21:35 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-07-21 21:41   ` Victor Porton
2014-07-21 23:23   ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-22  7:42     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-22 22:07       ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-23  7:55         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-23 21:44           ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-23 12:37         ` G.B.
2014-07-23 22:12           ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-24  7:20             ` Stefan.Lucks
2014-07-25  4:43               ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-26  2:36                 ` Shark8 [this message]
2014-07-24  8:27             ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-07-24 10:11               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-24 10:49                 ` G.B.
2014-07-24 12:50                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-25  4:56               ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-25  6:45                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-07-25 10:46                   ` G.B.
2014-07-25 19:31                   ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-25 20:02                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-26  2:45                       ` Shark8
2014-07-26  8:02                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-26 14:03                           ` Shark8
2014-07-26 14:18                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-21 21:55 ` Victor Porton
2014-07-22  7:06 ` Maciej Sobczak
2014-07-22  7:50   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-22 22:14     ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-23 13:21       ` Stephen Leake
2014-07-23 13:27         ` Victor Porton
2014-07-23 15:10         ` Adam Beneschan
2014-07-23 21:57 ` Robert A Duff
2014-07-24 12:25   ` Victor Porton
2014-07-24 15:53     ` Robert A Duff
2014-07-24 15:57       ` Victor Porton
2014-07-24 16:47   ` Pascal Obry
2014-07-24 12:26 ` anon
2014-07-24 12:52 ` Victor Porton
2014-07-24 16:01   ` Robert A Duff
2014-07-24 16:15     ` Adam Beneschan
2014-07-25  5:05     ` Randy Brukardt
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