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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Questions on vgrind for Ada
Keywords: vgrind, font
Message-ID: <8409@boring.cwi.nl>
Date: 15 Sep 89 01:25:20 GMT
References: <1989Sep14.173708.29341@planck.uucp>
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <1989Sep14.173708.29341@planck.uucp> planck!hercules!westley@cs.buffalo.edu writes:
 > This topic has passed through here before, so I know someone must have the
 > answer.  Please forgive if you've personally seen the topic too much.
 > 
 > Could someone please send me a vgrind language definition for Ada?
 > 
It is impossible to create a correct vgrind definition for ada.
There are two major difficulties:
1.	Some reserved words can also be attributes (digits).
2.	The ' does either mark the start of a character constant or
	something else (qualified expression, attribute etc.).
Vgrind is not able to handle this.  For our local use I have written
a {n,t,dit}roff preprocessor that is able to handle correctly Fortran
and Ada code, but does not have a lot of the niceties of vgrind.
I might feel inclined to post it somewhere.
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