Re: Suggestion for gnatstub

[Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Wes Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com> writes:

> > I'd also like to see some revisions to gnatstub like this.
> > Something that smartly creates stub functions that work when
> > possible.  I'm wrote
> 
> Suppose you have the spec for a subprogram.
> 
> You could have an ASIS routine that looks at the spec,
> and generates a stub that prints out something like
> 
>     Executing stub for function ... ( ... ) return ...
>        with parameters: param1 => ......
> 
> Stephen Leake's Auto_Text_IO can do 90% of this already.

Hmm. Auto_Text_IO was patterned after a previously written ASIS
program that did ..... (drum roll) ..... subprogram stub generation.
It's called gnatstub. Comes with GNAT (since at least 3.12). Works
fine. People are complaining about the details :). 

I suppose if you want to get really fancy, Auto_Text_IO has some
type-info-gathering stuff that gnatstub might need. But starting with
gnatstub is certainly the first thing to do, if you want a better
gnatstub.

Thanks for the plug, though. 

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-- Stephe