Re: Ada 83 pretty printers

[Tony Vincent <tony@avies.demon.co.uk>]

In article <7q4fhm$qhn@hobbes.crc.com>, David C. Hoos, Sr.
<david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> writes
>
>Tony Vincent <tony@avies.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:NilaNAAFpax3Ewu6@avies.demon.co.uk...
>> Hi there, and thanks for reading my first posting.
>>
>> I'm sure this is something which has cropped up before, but I am
>> currently working on a project which BADLY needs an Ada source code
>> formatter for Ada 83 code.  Can anybody point me in the direction of a
>> formatter with the following properties...?
>>
>Have you considered Ada Assured from
>http://www.grammatech.com/products/ada/ada-products.html
>
>
Thanks for all the useful responses.

I had a look around the Grammatech website some time ago.  The tool
looks better than ideal, but unfortunately does not appear to be
supported on Vax/VMS.



I have taken a copy of Marin Condic's pretty printer source, and will
try it and post results shortly.



The problem with installing GNAT (or any other) executables is simply
that the supplier is not on the list of known software sources
maintained by the security guys (they don't get out much).
It's a knee-jerk reaction to anything unknown.

If GNAT could be built from source then it would be OK - the source
could be checked and system calls investigated (not that they ever are).
How would Gnat be built from source?  I guess you would need to compile
GNAT source written in Ada'83 through DEC-Ada to produce the Gnat '95
executables.

-- 
Tony V