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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.50.2.65 with SMTP id 1mr9935421igs.1.1399297958103; Mon, 05 May 2014 06:52:38 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.241.70 with SMTP id wg6mr43444obc.19.1399297958003; Mon, 05 May 2014 06:52:38 -0700 (PDT) Path: border2.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!backlog4.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!c1no1651719igq.0!news-out.google.com!gi6ni747igc.0!nntp.google.com!r10no847278igi.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 06:52:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <42945a0c-e4ae-41ff-a2ce-d3faf41336ce@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=174.24.98.194; posting-account=X7Y-0AoAAABSgWfgVpaegSDud7e4NIYx NNTP-Posting-Host: 174.24.98.194 References: <2c400962-3a09-4da2-9f56-b4f1986b80f8@googlegroups.com> <42945a0c-e4ae-41ff-a2ce-d3faf41336ce@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: I'm a noob here. From: sdalemorrey@gmail.com Injection-Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 13:52:38 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Original-Bytes: 2236 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:186237 Date: 2014-05-05T06:52:37-07:00 List-Id: On Monday, May 5, 2014 6:43:50 AM UTC-6, Dan'l Miller wrote: > In brief, what the OP is asking is: precisely how does a SPARK compiler = actually utilize the meta-information annotations? E.g., precisely how doe= s a SPARK compiler make logical inferences regarding correctness of Ada-sub= set source code to verify that the imperative code does what the annotation= s have declared? Well there is that and then there is the more general question of "What is = the relationship of Ada to Spark" is one a subset or superset of the other? Is every valid Spark program a valid Ada program, or is every valid Ada pro= gram also a valid Spark program? Ada documentation seems to be a bit thin, but Spark documentation has been = nearly impossible to track down. To my mind this means I'm either asking t= he question wrong, or asking the wrong question. A good primer on Spark as well as what tools I would need to see Spark in i= t's full glory would be a good place for me to start I believe.