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| author | Arnaud Charlet <charlet@adacore.com> | 2010-06-01 12:59:09 +0000 |
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| committer | Arnaud Charlet <charlet@gcc.gnu.org> | 2010-06-01 14:59:09 +0200 |
| commit | c4e09c3f8bbbeb122fec25eed43a8fbb9b51df88 (patch) | |
| tree | 6f6ae246aa876f0c4bf81c1e96d287cf75bc9cad /gcc/ada | |
| parent | 9cc549409b6eaf87ba91362809738b0f1f3158e1 (diff) | |
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* gnat_ugn.texi: Improve doc on -fdump-ada-spec, mention limitations.
From-SVN: r160101
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| -rw-r--r-- | gcc/ada/gnat_ugn.texi | 21 |
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diff --git a/gcc/ada/ChangeLog b/gcc/ada/ChangeLog index 7b909f8..3340a4e 100644 --- a/gcc/ada/ChangeLog +++ b/gcc/ada/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2010-06-01 Arnaud Charlet <charlet@adacore.com> + + * gnat_ugn.texi: Improve doc on -fdump-ada-spec, mention limitations. + 2010-05-30 Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@adacore.com> * gcc-interface/decl.c (gnat_to_gnu_entity) <E_Task_Type>: Reuse the diff --git a/gcc/ada/gnat_ugn.texi b/gcc/ada/gnat_ugn.texi index ab52d63..db8b2cc 100644 --- a/gcc/ada/gnat_ugn.texi +++ b/gcc/ada/gnat_ugn.texi @@ -23326,10 +23326,23 @@ Verbose mode: generate version information. @findex binding @noindent -GNAT now comes with a new experimental binding generator for C and C++ -headers which is intended to do 95% of the tedious work of generating -Ada specs from C or C++ header files. Note that this still is a work in -progress, not designed to generate 100% correct Ada specs. +GNAT now comes with a binding generator for C and C++ headers which is +intended to do 95% of the tedious work of generating Ada specs from C +or C++ header files. + +Note that this capability is not intended to generate 100% correct Ada specs, +and will is some cases require manual adjustments, although it can often +be used out of the box in practice. + +Some of the known limitations include: + +@itemize @bullet +@item only very simple character constant macros are translated into Ada +constants. Function macros (macros with arguments) are partially translated +as comments, to be completed manually if needed. +@item some extensions (e.g. vector types) are not supported +@item pointers to pointers or complex structures are mapped to System.Address +@end itemize The code generated is using the Ada 2005 syntax, which makes it easier to interface with other languages than previous versions of Ada. |