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Re: ada/9406: Documentation suggestion
- From: Geert Bosch <bosch at gnat dot com>
- To: Simon Wright <simon at pushface dot org>
- Cc: bosch at gcc dot gnu dot org, bje at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org,gcc-prs at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-gnats at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 17:38:13 -0500
- Subject: Re: ada/9406: Documentation suggestion
On Thursday, Feb 20, 2003, at 16:35 America/New_York, Simon Wright
wrote:
You are of course entirely welcome to reject the suggested
rewording. However,
(a) the first part of the patch corrected a grammatical error.
Yes, I added to my initial reply that of course the grammar
change was OK to apply.
My suggestion was to say "run the Ada binder on the Ada entry units"
but I suppose you could be all formal and say "run the Ada binder on
all the Ada units that contain subprograms that are called directly or
indirectly by the non-Ada main program". I think I would have
understood the former better. I certainly didn't understand the
present wording!
(by the way, what about non-subprogram entities such as variables?)
Actually, your "all formal" version shows some misunderstanding:
you do not need to specify Ada units that are called indirectly
by the non-Ada main program.
Probably you are most helped by this quote from the Ada reference
manual, 10.2(5):
A partition is a program or part of a program that
can be invoked from outside the Ada implementation.
For example, on many systems, a partition might be
an executable file generated by the system linker.
The user can explicitly assign library units to a
partition. The assignment is done in an implementation-
defined manner. The compilation units included in
a partition are those of the explicitly assigned
library units, as well as other compilation units
needed by those library units.
This should also address your question about variables.
-Geert