harbaughs@EGLIN-VAX.ARPA (09/27/85)
I frankly don't know if the DEC Ada compiler makes available parsed form but i've seen nothing in any documentation saying that it does. Even so I suspect that it would not be a gaurenteed interface thus any tools that use it as input may not work with future revisions of the compiler. It certainly is good that Intermetrics makes that available. It will save many trillions of cpu ops to have tools work from the parsed form. I am not up to date on Diana. Is it standardized yet? ANSI? ISO? Is there a validation suite? A language control facility? I am very reluctant to do any work on an interface that isn't frozen, validated, and maintained by the vendor. Also I am reluctant to get locked into sole-source thus I would rather burn the cpu ops than limit my choice of validated Ada compilers. Looking forward to a standard compiler front-end output interface. regards, sam harbaugh ---------------------