From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,89672537efe45443 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-27 09:43:59 PST From: "Dr. Michael Paus" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Source Analysis Tools for Ada95 Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 18:43:58 +0200 Organization: 1&1 Internet AG Message-ID: References: <7fc0d0f7.0304251607.efb4d7b@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: p508301c7.dip0.t-ipconnect.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: online.de 1051461839 4803 80.131.1.199 (27 Apr 2003 16:43:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 16:43:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030311 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <7fc0d0f7.0304251607.efb4d7b@posting.google.com> Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!feed.news.nacamar.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36652 Date: 2003-04-27T18:43:58+02:00 List-Id: Dr. Anthony Probe wrote: > I've got a little project to clean up 4M lines of Ada95. Code has > been in maintenance for years and is a bit weedy. First task is to > remove all unused source code (not just comp units). I can probably > do most of this with some scripts and existing compiler tools, but I > wondered if any one here has experience with any other tools (both > commercial and free) that would help automate this tedious task. > Subsequent tasks are to clean up the code to make it more maintainable > and code review for latent bugs. So, I'm also seeking info on other > analysis tools that don't get in your way but actually help this labor > intensive IV&V task. Have a look here. http://www.scitools.com/uada.html This is a quite nice tool and may be exactly what you need. There is also a free evaluation version available so you can give it a try with your project. Michael