From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: ALI Files Cross-References Inconsistency?
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 10:03:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rkmsl1$f8o$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 86a6xd5vwc.fsf@stephe-leake.org
On 26/09/2020 00:33, Stephen Leake wrote:
> "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.
Thanks. Recompilation is only one aspect. We want to freeze the whole
project state. I see there is the file clang_ref_cache.db. It looks like
a database (SQLite?). Probably we should to store it as well in the future.
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-13 15:24 ALI Files Cross-References Inconsistency? Leandro Ribeiro
2020-08-13 15:55 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2020-08-13 21:18 ` Simon Wright
2020-08-14 19:45 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2020-08-13 17:17 ` Egil H H
2020-08-14 8:11 ` Leandro Ribeiro
2020-08-14 16:35 ` Per Sandberg
2020-08-14 17:23 ` Simon Wright
2020-08-15 7:56 ` J-P. Rosen
2020-08-14 19:47 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2020-09-25 16:16 ` Stephen Leake
2020-09-25 19:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-09-25 22:33 ` Stephen Leake
2020-09-26 8:03 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2020-09-30 9:53 ` wj46633
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