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Pragma Annotate

Syntax:

     pragma Annotate (IDENTIFIER [,IDENTIFIER] {, ARG});
     
     ARG ::= NAME | EXPRESSION

This pragma is used to annotate programs. identifier identifies the type of annotation. GNAT verifies that it is an identifier, but does not otherwise analyze it. The second optional identifier is also left unanalyzed, and by convention is used to control the action of the tool to which the annotation is addressed. The remaining arg arguments can be either string literals or more generally expressions. String literals are assumed to be either of type Standard.String or else Wide_String or Wide_Wide_String depending on the character literals they contain. All other kinds of arguments are analyzed as expressions, and must be unambiguous.

The analyzed pragma is retained in the tree, but not otherwise processed by any part of the GNAT compiler. This pragma is intended for use by external tools, including ASIS.