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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
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Subject: Re: ALI Files Cross-References Inconsistency?
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 15:33:39 -0700
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> On 25/09/2020 18:16, Stephen Leake wrote:
>> Leandro Ribeiro <leandrobribeiro@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> I am currently analyzing .ali files.
>> Be aware that AdaCore is moving away from ali files for cross
>> referencing; that functionality is now provided by libadalang.
>
> Can you elaborate? 

GNATStudio uses libadalang when navigating between files; it does not
use the .ali files.

> Presently we keep ALI files as build artifacts. Object files are not
> enough in order to avoid recompilation.

Ok, so .ali files will not go away entirely. But they may lose all their
cross-reference info.

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-- Stephe