Re: Ada Code Formatting

[dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

James said

"I'm looking for a product that will re-format ada code written by
different people so that the "style" is the same.  We have some code
that was re-used from one project to the next, but in the process
was "cleaned up" by the second group; mostly indenting, spacing, etc.
that shouldn't really impact the code's function.

I would like to be able to do a diff on the code, but that's not
possible the way it is right now."


Any decent diff program has an option to ignore white space, which will
cure a lot of the bogus differences.

You may still have problems from differences in line splitting, a lot
of diff programs do NOT have the capability of ignoring line feeds.

A diff program that worked only on Ada tokens would be useful