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ASIS-for-GNAT Reference Manual
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   ASIS-for-GNAT Reference Manual

   (C) Copyright 2000, Ada Core Technologies, Inc.

   Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
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   ASIS-for-GNAT Reference Manual

* Menu:

* About This Manual::
* ASIS-for-GNAT and the ASIS Standard::
* ASIS Extensions::
* Implementation-Specific Features and Implementation Permissions::
* Debugging Information::

 --- The Detailed Node Listing ---

About This Manual

*   What This Manual Contains::
*   What You Should Know Before Reading This Manual::
*   Related Information::

ASIS-for-GNAT and the ASIS Standard

ASIS Extensions

Implementation-Specific Features and Implementation Permissions

* Interacting with the Underlying Ada Implementation::
*   Format of the Parameters string::
*   Parameters of AsisImplementationInitialize Procedure::
*   Parameters of AsisImplementationFinalize Procedure::
*   Parameters of AsisAda_EnvironmentsAssociate Procedure::
* Implementation Permissions::
*   AsisImplementationPermissions Queries::
*   Processing Implicit Elements::
*   Processing Several Contexts at a Time::
*   Implementation-Defined Types and Values::
* ASIS Queries Having Specific Implementation Permissions or Implementation-Specific Results::
* Restrictions Specific to -FS and -FM Context options::

Debugging Information

* Interpreting Debug Images::
* ASIS Debug Flags::


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About This Manual
*****************

This Manual contains useful information in writing tools and
applications using ASIS 95 implementation for the GNAT Ada 95 compiler
(ASIS-for-GNAT). It includes information on implementation dependent
characteristics and the current implementation limitations of
ASIS-for-GNAT.

   ASIS has been designed to be a portable basis for many useful Ada
code analysis tools. However, since ASIS is designed to be implemented
for wide variety of Ada compilers, it also contains a number of
implementation specific features to be used in interfacing with the
underlying Ada implementation, as well as implementation permissions
for particular queries

   Note: Any ASIS application that makes use of
implementation-dependent features may be non-portable. You should
follow good programming practice and isolate and clearly document any
sections of your program that make use of these features in a
non-portable manner.

* Menu:

*   What This Manual Contains::
*   What You Should Know Before Reading This Manual::
*   Related Information::


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What This Manual Contains
=========================

This guide contains the following chapters:

   - *Note ASIS-for-GNAT and the ASIS Standard:: describes the relations
      between ASIS-for-GNAT and the existing ASIS International
     Standard;

   - *Note ASIS Extensions:: describes the ASIS extensions implemented
     in   ASIS-for-GNAT;

   - *Note Implementation-Specific Features and Implementation
     Permissions::   goes through the aspects of the ASIS definition
     which are   implementation-specific and describes their
     implementation in ASIS-for-GNAT;

   - *Note Debugging Information:: describes the debugging information
     which   can be produced by ASIS-for-GNAT


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What You Should Know Before Reading This Manual
===============================================

This Reference Manual assumes, that you are familiar with Ada 95
language, as described in the International Standard
ANSI/ISO/IEC-8652:1995, Jan 1995, and with ASIS 95, as described in the
ASIS 95 International Standard ISO/IEC 15291:1999.

   This Manual relies on some important facts described in the
ASIS-for-GNAT User's Guide and uses the terminology introduced in the
User's Guide.


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Related Information
===================

For more information, see the following documents:
   - GNAT User's Guide;

   - ASIS-for-GNAT User's Guide;

   - Ada 95 Reference Manual, which contains all reference material for
     the Ada 95 programming language;

   - ASIS 95 definition, which contains all reference material for
     the Ada Semantic Interface Specification;


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ASIS-for-GNAT and the ASIS Standard
***********************************

Now the ASIS definition for Ada 95 (ASIS 95) exists as ISO/IEC
15291:1999 International Standard. ASIS-for-GNAT supports the ASIS 95
interface as it is defined in the ASIS Standard. ASIS-for-GNAT also
contains some ASIS extensions (see chapter *Note ASIS Extensions::), as
allowed by the ASIS Standard, section 1.1.3.1.

   Currently some queries in some situations may raise the Asis_Failed
exception with Not_Implemented_Error error status. This means, that
some part of the functionality of a given query is not implemented yet.
If you encounter such a situation, report it as an ordinary
ASIS-for-GNAT bug. Our general goal is to have the full implementation
of ASIS 95 conforming to the ASIS Standard.

   ASIS-for-GNAT contains the specifications of all the ASIS interface
packages as defined in the ASIS Standard, except the optional Data
Decomposition Annex, with no changes, except adding comments in the
very beginning, adding with clauses, adding declarations in package
private parts and some reformatting needed to follow the GNAT coding
style. The only exception is moving the Is_Dispatching_Operation query
from Asis.Expressions into Asis.Declarations.


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ASIS Extensions
***************

ASIS-for-GNAT provides some additional queries as ASIS extensions. All
these queries are defined and documented in the hierarchy headed by
package Asis.Extensions. They are referred as "ASIS extensions" or
"ASIS extension queries" below.

   All the ASIS extensions obey all the general ASIS rules: when using
ASIS extensions, you have to follow the required sequiensing of calls,
only ASIS-defined exceptions are allowed to propagate outside the ASIS
exception queries. If the documentation of an ASIS exception query
contains a list of appropriate element kinds, then this query can be
applied only to Elements from this list and it raises
ASIS_Inappropriate_Element with Value_Error status otherwise. If the
documentation of an ASIS exception query contains a list of expected
element kinds, then this query can be applied to an Element having any
kind, but it returns meaningful result only for Elements from this list.

   The current set of ASIS extensions originated from the ASIS
implementation needs and from the development of some ASIS tools inside
the ASIS-for-GNAT team. As it stands now, Asis.Extensions hierarchy is
not supposed to be stable - some queries may be removed from it, some
new extension queries may be added. We are very interested in ASIS
application developers feedback to implement a compact, but useful set
of extension queries in ASIS-for-GNAT.

   Currently Asis.Extensions hierarchy contains its top Asis.Extensions
package defining a set of various-purpose extensions, and its only child
Asis.Extensions.Flat_Kinds, which defines a "flat" Element
classification.

   Asis.Extensions package contains the following extension types and
queries (see the specification of Asis.Extensions in the file named
`asis-extensions.ads' for full details):

  1.  Types for dynamic Elements and Compilation Units lists:

             type Element_List_Access is access Element_List;
             type Compilation_Unit_List_Access is
                access Compilation_Unit_List;

     an application may use dynamic allocation to keep the results of
     queries     returning lists (instead of declaring local list
     variables in block     statements)

  2.  Placeholders for Traverse_Element instantiations:

             type No_State is (Not_Used);
             --  Placeholder for the State_Information formal type
          
             procedure No_Op
               (Element : Asis.Element;
                Control : in out Traverse_Control;
                State   : in out No_State);
             --  Placeholder for the formal Post_Operation procedure

     In many simple cases of instantiating Traverse_Element, the only
     needed     actual is the actual for Pre_Operation, so these
     placeholders for     traversal state and post-operation may be
     used to get the legal     instantiation;

  3.  Test functions:

             function Is_Primitive_Operation (Declaration : Asis.Element)
               return Boolean;
          
             --  Checks if its argument is a declaration of a (user-defined)
             --  primitive operation of some type (both explicit and implicit
             --  declarations are expected).
          
             function Acts_As_Spec (Declaration : Asis.Element)
               return Boolean;
          
             --  Checks if there is no separate subprogram declaration for a
             --  given body declaration or body stub.
          
             function Is_Renaming_As_Body (Declaration : Asis.Element)
               return Boolean;
             --  Checks if its argument is a renaming-as-body declaration.
          
             function Is_Completed (Declaration : Asis.Element)
               return Boolean;
             --  Checks if its argument (which is expected to be a
             --  declaration requiring completion) has a completion in its
             --  enclosed ASIS Context.
          
             function Is_True_Expression (Expression : Asis.Expression)
               return Boolean;
             --  Checks if Expression is an expression in Ada sense, that is
             --  if it is an expression as defined in RM 4.4, and the type of
             --  this expression can be represented in ASIS. For cases of
             --  An_Expression Element for which Is_True_Expression is True,
             --  the Corresponding_Expression_Type query should yield non-Nil
             --  result
          
             function Is_Static (Expression : Asis.Expression)
               return Boolean;
             --  Checks if Expression is static in the GNAT sense, that is if
             --  the compiler computes its value during the compilation time.
             --  We believe that this notion of a static expression is close
             --  to the definition of static expression in RM 95, but we can
             --  not guarantee this.

  4. Modified versions of the "primary" ASIS queries:

             generic
                type State_Information is limited private;
          
                with procedure Pre_Operation
                                 (Element : in     Asis.Element;
                                  Control : in out Traverse_Control;
                                  State   : in out State_Information) is <>;
          
                with procedure Post_Operation
                                 (Element : in     Asis.Element;
                                  Control : in out Traverse_Control;
                                  State   : in out State_Information) is <>;
          
             procedure Traverse_Unit
               (Unit    : in     Asis.Compilation_Unit;
                Control : in out Traverse_Control;
                State   : in out State_Information);
             --  A generalized version of Asis.Iterator.Traverse_Element.
             --  Traverses the whole structure of the argument Compilation
             --  Unit
          
             function Formal_Subprogram_Default
               (Declaration : in Asis.Generic_Formal_Parameter)
                return Asis.Expression;
             --  This is a modified version of the
             --  Asis.Declarations.Formal_Subprogram_Default query. It returns
             --  Nil_Element instead of raising Asis_Inappropriate_Element if
             --  Subprogram_Default_Kinds of its argument is not
             --  A_Name_Default
          
             function Primary_Owner
               (Declaration : Asis.Declaration)
                return        Asis.Declaration;
             --  In the case that Declaration is Is_Primary_Operation for some
             --  tagged type, this function returns the tagged type definition
             --  for which it is a primary operation.
          
             function Corresponding_Called_Function_Unwinded
               (Expression : in Asis.Expression)
                return Asis.Declaration;
             --  This is the modification of
             --  Asis.Expressions.Corresponding_Called_Function which unwinds
             --  all the renamings in case if the function name in the
             --  argument function call is defined by a renaming declaration.
             --  This function returns the declaration of the called function
             --  *entity*.
          
             function Corresponding_Called_Entity_Unwinded
               (Statement : in Asis.Statement)
                return Asis.Declaration;
             --  This is the modification of
             --  Asis.Statements.Corresponding_Called_Entity which unwinds all
             --  the renamings in case if the procedure or entry name in the
             --  argument call is defined by a renaming declaration. This
             --  function returns the declaration of the callable *entity*.

  5. Extensions of ASIS functionality:

             function Is_Obsolete (Right : Asis.Compilation_Unit)
               return Boolean;
             --  Checks if a unit is obsolete.
          
             type Source_File_Statuses is
               (No_File_Status, Absent, Older,  Newer, Up_To_Date);
          
             function Source_File_Status
               (Right : Asis.Compilation_Unit)
                return  Source_File_Statuses;
             --  Checks the status of the source file for the argument unit.
          
             function Is_Main_Unit_In_Tree
               (Right : Asis.Compilation_Unit)
                return  Boolean;
             --  Checks if a unit is a main unit from some compilation which
             --  has created a tree within the set of tree files making up the
             --  enclosing Context.
          
             function Compilation_Dependencies
               (Main_Unit : Asis.Compilation_Unit)
                return      Asis.Compilation_Unit_List;
             --  Provides the full list of units upon which Main_Unit depends
             --  in the GNAT compilation system.
          
             function Corresponding_First_Definition
               (Defining_Name : in Asis.Defining_Name)
                return Asis.Defining_Name;
             --  In case if there are more then one defining occurrence of an
             --  argument Defining_Name representing the same view of the same
             -- entity, this function returns the first defining occurrence
             --  which actually introduces the entity.
          
             function Corresponding_Body_Parameter_Definition
               (Defining_Name : Asis.Defining_Name)
                return          Asis.Defining_Name;
             --  When applying to a defining name which is a name of a formal
             --  parameter of a subprogram, this function returns the defining
             --  name of this parameter from a subprogram body.
          
             function Element_Span_In_Template
               (Element : Asis.Element)
                return    Asis.Text.Span;
             --  If Is_Part_Of_Instance is True for the argument Element, then
             --  this function returns the span of the corresponding piece of
             --  code in the generic template. Otherwise a Nil_Span is
             --  returned. Nil_Span is also returned if Is_Part_Of_Implicit
             --  Element is True for Element.
          
             function Element_Image_In_Template
               (Element : Asis.Element)
                return    Program_Text;
             --  If Is_Part_Of_Instancce is True for the argument Element,
             --  then this function returns the image of the corresponding
             --  piece of code in the generic template. Otherwise a null
             --  string is returned. A null string is also returned if
             --  Is_Part_Of_Implicit_ELement is true for Element

  6. General_Purpose Extensions:

             function Get_Last_Component (E : Asis.Element)
               return Asis.Element;
             --  Returns the right-most direct component of its argument.
          
             function Components (E : Asis.Element) return Asis.Element_List;
             --  Returns the list of all the first-level components of its
             --  argument.

Asis.Extensions.Flat_Kinds package contains the definition of the type
Flat_Element_Kinds. This type defines a "flat" Element classification
which is equivalent to the Element classification hierarchy defined in
Asis package: each kind value of the original hierarchy having
subordinate kinds is replaced by the corresponding subordinate range.
Asis.Extensions.Flat_Kinds package also provides conversion functions
from the "flat" classification into the original classification
hierarchy.


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Implementation-Specific Features and Implementation Permissions
***************************************************************

There are three kinds of implementation dependencies in ASIS.

   First, ASIS subprograms which define an interface between an ASIS
implementation and the underlying Ada implementation have
implementation-specific parameters. There are three queries of this
kind - Asis.Implementation.Initialize, Asis.Implementation.Finalize and
Asis.Ada_Enfironments.Associate, all of them have a string parameter
named Parameters which has implementation-specific meaning. The meaning
of Parameters string in ASIS-for-GNAT is discussed in section *Note
Interacting with the Underlying Ada Implementation::.

   Second, some ASIS areas are considered as making problems for ASIS
implementations. For such areas, the Asis Working Draft contains
explicit implementation permissions which allow an ASIS implementation
not to implement some part of the ASIS functionality or to implement it
in a restricted way.  Each of these permissions usually affects more,
then one particular ASIS query. The ASIS package
Asis.Implementation.Permissions contains boolean queries which tell you
what choices are made for these implementation permission in a given
ASIS implementation. The solutions taken in ASIS-for-GNAT for these
general implementation permissions are discussed in section *Note
Implementation Permissions::.

   Third, for some ASIS queries implementation permissions which are
specific for a given query are given explicitly in the ASIS Working
Draft. For some other queries, the result of a query may be
implementation-specific because of the very nature of the query, even
though it is not explicitly said so in the ASIS Standard. Such queries
are discussed in section *Note ASIS Queries Having Specific
Implementation Permissions or Implementation-Specific Results::.

* Menu:

* Interacting with the Underlying Ada Implementation::
* Implementation Permissions::
* ASIS Queries Having Specific Implementation Permissions or Implementation-Specific Results::
* Restrictions Specific to -FS and -FM Context options::


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Interacting with the Underlying Ada Implementation
==================================================

* Menu:

*   Format of the Parameters string::
*   Parameters of AsisImplementationInitialize Procedure::
*   Parameters of AsisImplementationFinalize Procedure::
*   Parameters of AsisAda_EnvironmentsAssociate Procedure::


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Format of the Parameters string
-------------------------------

   A Parameters string is a parameter of the three ASIS subprograms:
Asis.Implementation. Initialize, Asis.Implementation.Finalize and
Asis.Ada_Environments.Associate.  The following requirements are common
for all these subprograms:

   -  A Parameters string are considered as consisting on substrings
     bounded by   the beginning of the string, the end of the string,
     space character, LF or   CR and containing no space character, LF
     or CR inside. These substrings are   called parameters (with
     low-case 'p') below;

   -  any number of space character, CR and LF are allowed before the
     first   parameter, after the last parameter and between any two
     parameters;

   -  each of the queries Asis.Implementation.Initialize,
     Asis.Implementation.Finalize and Asis.Ada_Enfironments.Associate
     has its own   requirements imposed on its parameters. For all of
     these queries, if some   parameter does not match the rules for a
     given query, either an error   message is generated or Asis_Failed
     with the Parameter_Error status is   raised. In this manual, the
     situations when Asis_Failed is raised when   processing the
     Parameters string are documented specially.


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Parameters of Asis.Implementation.Initialize Procedure
------------------------------------------------------

The allowed parameters for Asis.Implementation.Initialize are:

`-d<debug_flag>'
     sets the ASIS-for-GNAT debug flag <debug_flag> ON

`-dall'
     sets all the ASIS-for-GNAT debug flags ON.

`-w<warning_mode>'
     sets the ASIS warning mode (This is under development at the
     moment).

   Now <debug_flag> may be any lower case letter from 'a' to 'z' or any
digit from 0 to 9 (not all of the corresponding options are implemented
now).

   ASIS debug flags are documented in the file `a_debug.adb'.  (See
also section *Note ASIS Debug Flags:: for some advices)

   <warning_mode> could be either 's', which means "suppress all the
warning messages" or 'e', which means "treat every warning as an
error", and in this case every warning are converted in Asis_Failed
raising with warning messages as ASIS Diagnosis strings.

   If more then one parameter controlling the warning mode is set in the
diagnosis string, each of them changes the warning mode in the place
where it is given.

   See also ASIS-for-GNAT Users' Guide for more information about
warnings.


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Parameters of Asis.Implementation.Finalize Procedure
----------------------------------------------------

No parameter is allowed for Asis.Implementation.Finalize in the current
ASIS-for-GNAT version.

   When called, Asis.Implementation.Finalize resets all the general
ASIS-for-GNAT parameters to the default values (that is, all the debug
flags are set off, and the warning mode is set to the default warning
mode).


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Parameters of Asis.Ada_Environments.Associate Procedure
-------------------------------------------------------

   The following parameters are allowed for this query:

`-C1'
     a Context is made up by a single tree file, this tree file name
     should       be given explicitly in the Parameters string;

`-CN'
     a Context is made up by a set of tree files, the names of the tree
     files       making up the Context should be given explicitly in
     the Parameters       string;

`-CA'
     a Context is made up by all the tree files in the tree search path;

`-FS'
     all the trees considered as making up a given Context are created
     on the       fly, whether or not the corresponding tree file
     already exists; once       created, a tree file may then be reused
     till the Context remains open;

`-FT'
     only pre-created trees are used, no tree file can be created by
     ASIS;

`-FM'
     mixed approach: if a needed tree does not exist, the attempt to
     create       it on the fly is made;

`-SA'
     source files for all the Compilation Units belonging to the Context
          (except the predefined Standard package) are considered in
     the       consistency check when opening the Context;

`-SE'
     only existing source files for all the Compilation Units belonging
     to the       Context are considered in the consistency check when
     opening the Context

`-SN'
     no source file from the underlying file system is taken into
     account       when checking the consistency of the set of tree
     files making up a       Context;

`-I<dir>'
     defines the directory to look for a source file;

`-T<dir>'
     defines the directory to look for a tree file;

`<file_name>'
     defines the name of a tree file;

For -I and -T parameters, <dir> should denote an existing directory in
the underlying file system, notations as "." and ".." are allowed, as
well as relative or absolute directory names. If <dir> does not denote
an existing directory, Asis_Failed with Parameter_Error status is
raised.

   A tree file name given by a <file_name> parameter may or may not
contain directory information.

   The search path associated with an ASIS Context consists of the
directories listed as parameters for the
Asis.Ada_Environments.Associate query, in the same order as they are
included in the actual Parameters string. The ASIS source search path
consists only of the directories following '-I', and the ASIS tree
search path consists only of the directories following '-T'. If no
source (tree) directory presents in the value of the Parameters string,
then the ASIS source (tree) search path consists of the current
directory only, otherwise the current directory is included in the ASIS
search path if amd only if it is set explicitly as -I. or -T.
respectively.

   If an ASIS Context is associated with -FS or -FM option, the Context
source search path to locate sources of the units to create a tree file
for, and to locate other source files needed when called GNAT to create
tree files. For example, if we have:

        Asis.Ada_Environments.Associate
          (My_Cont,
          "My_Cont_Name",
          "-CA -FS -I./dir -I.");

   then, when processing a call:

        My_Unit := Asis.Compilation_Units.Library_Unit_Declaration
          ("Foo", My_Cont);

   ASIS first try to locate the source file foo.ads in ./dir, and if
this attempt fails, it tries to locate it in the current directory. If
the source file is found (let it be in the current directory), ASIS
calls GNAT to create the tree file as

        gcc -c -gnatc -gnatt -I./dir -I. -I- foo.ads

   If an ASIS Context is associated with -CA option, then, when this
Context is opened, ASIS processes all the tree files located in the
tree search path associated with the Context.

   The following restrictions are imposed on allowed combinations of
parameters in the actual Parameters string of the
Asis.Ada_Environments.Associate query:

   * -C1 and -CN require FT

   * -C1 requires exactly one tree file to be set

   * -CN requires at least one tree file to be set

   * -CA does not allow a tree file name

   * -FS and -FM require -SA

   In case if an incompatible combination is set, Asis_Failed with
Parameter_Error status is raised

   In case if the actual for the Parameters string in a call to the
query `Associate' is an empty string, the default parameters are: "-CA
-FT -SA"

   Note, that the definition of the parameters might change later on.

   For the Name parameter of the Asis.Ada_Environments.Associate query
any string can be passed as an actual. In the current ASIS-for-GNAT
version no verification is performed for an actual and no semantic is
associated with the Name parameter of the
Asis.Ada_Environments.Associate query.


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Implementation Permissions
==========================

* Menu:

*   AsisImplementationPermissions Queries::
*   Processing Implicit Elements::
*   Processing Several Contexts at a Time::
*   Implementation-Defined Types and Values::


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Asis.Implementation.Permissions Queries
---------------------------------------

The Boolean queries defined in the `Asis.Implementation.Permissions'
package return the following results under ASIS-for-GNAT:

        Is_Formal_Parameter_Named_Notation_Supported   True
        Default_In_Mode_Supported                      True
        Generic_Actual_Part_Normalized                 False
        Record_Component_Associations_Normalized       False
        Is_Prefix_Call_Supported                       True
        Function_Call_Parameters_Normalized            False
        Call_Statement_Parameters_Normalized           False
        Discriminant_Associations_Normalized           False
        Is_Line_Number_Supported                       True
        Is_Span_Column_Position_Supported              True
        Is_Commentary_Supported                        True
        Attributes_Are_Supported                       False
        Implicit_Components_Supported                  False +
        Object_Declarations_Normalized                 False
        Predefined_Operations_Supported                False +
        Inherited_Declarations_Supported               False +
        Inherited_Subprograms_Supported                False +
        Generic_Macro_Expansion_Supported              True

+  - See section *Note Processing Implicit Elements::


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Processing Implicit Elements
----------------------------

ASIS Elements represent both explicit and implicit components of Ada
programs.  There are queries in ASIS which can return implicit Elements
(that is, Elements representing implicit Ada constructs) or which can
have implicit Elements as parameters.

   The ASIS Standard gives the permission to ASIS implementation not to
support implicit Elements at all or to support them only partially. If
an implementation does not support implicit Element representing a
particular kind of Ada implicit constructs, this means, that
corresponding ASIS queries return Nil_Element in cases when, according
to RM-defined Ada syntax and semantic, they should return implicit
Elements representing these implicit constructs.

   Now implicit Elements are partially supported by ASIS-for-GNAT. In
case of implicitly declared user-defined inherited subprograms, the
queries `Asis.Expressions.Corresponding_Name_Definition',
Asis.Expressions.Corresponding_Called_Function and
`Asis.Statements.Corresponding_Called_Entity' return non-nil result
representing the corresponding entity. In case of implicitly declared
predefined operations, `Nil_Element' is returned.

   Our final goal is to have all the implicit Ada constructs fully
implemented in ASIS-for-GNAT.


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Processing Several Contexts at a Time
-------------------------------------

ASIS Standard says that the number of ASIS Context which can be
associated and opened at a time, as well as the number of ASIS
Compilation Units which can be processed at a time are
implementation-specific.  ASIS-for-GNAT does not impose any
restrictions on the number of ASIS Context opened at a time in an ASIS
application, as well as on the number of ASIS Compilation Units which
can be obtained from all the opened Contexts, as long as the
application does not go beyond the general system resource limitations.

   Note, however, for a Context associated with -FS or -FM option, all
the trees create don the fly during obtaining Compilation Units from
this Context are placed in the current directory. If the current
directory contains also some tree files belonging to another Context,
they may be corrupted. To process more then one Context in a safe way,
an application should have ot most one Context associated with -FS or
-FM option. Moreover, if among Contexts processed at the same time
there is a Context which can create trees on the fly, all the other
Context should not use tree files located in the current directory.


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Implementation-Defined Types and Values
---------------------------------------

All the implementation-defined types, subtypes and values depend on the
subtype Implementation_Defined_Integer_Type and on the
Implementation_Defined_Integer_Constant defined in package Asis.
ASIS-for-GNAT does not change the definition given in the specification
of package Asis as it stands in the ASIS Standard:

         subtype Implementation_Defined_Integer_Type is Integer;
         Implementation_Defined_Integer_Constant : constant := 2**31-1;

All the ASIS (sub)types used as list indexes for the ASIS array types
have this value of Implementation_Defined_Integer_Constant as an upper
bound.


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ASIS Queries Having Specific Implementation Permissions or Implementation-Specific Results
==========================================================================================

This section contains implementation-specific documentation items for
the queries having implementation permissions (given under -|IP
sentinel in the ASIS definition) or for the queries whose behavior may
be implementation-specific for whatever reason. Such queries are ordered
according to the presentation in the ASIS definition. We have preserved
the clause and subclause numbers from the ASIS definition, putting
these numbers between quotes to avoid confusion with section numbers in
this manual.

   The results returned by the ASIS Debug_Image queries are discussed in
section *Note Interpreting Debug Images::.

     '8'  package Asis.Ada_Environments
     
     '8.1'  function Default_Name
            - null string is returned;
     
     '8.2'  function Default_Parameters
            - null string is returned;
     
     '8.4'  procedure Open
            - what happens during the Context opening is:
     
              - for a Context associated with -CA option:
                - if -FS is also set, nothing is doing;
                - if -FT or -FM is set, all the tree files (that is,
                  files having .adt suffix) in the tree search path
                  associated with the Context are processed. For every
                  tree file an attempt to read it in is made, and then
                  it is checked that this file was created with
                  -gnatc option. Tree files which cannot be read in or
                  which were not created with -gnatc option are ignored.
                  For all the other trees ASIS collects some black-box
                  information about Compilation Units represented by
                  this tree file, and performs a consistency check for
                  every unit it encounters in the tree (see ASIS-for-GNAT
                  Users' Guide for discussion of the consistency
                  problem). If any consistency check fails, Asis_Failed
                  is raises and the Context remains closed.
     
              - for a Context associated with -C1 or -CN option: ASIS
                process all the tree files associated with the Context,
                collecting black-box information and doing consistency
                check for all the encountered Compilation Units. If,
                because of any reason, a tree file cannot be
                successfully read in, for a Context associated with -C1
                option Asis_Failed is raised and the Context remains
                closed; and for a Context associated with -CN option,
                ASIS warning is generated and Context opening goes
                further. If any consistency check fails, Asis_Failed is
                raised and the Context remains closed.
     
     '10' package Asis.Compilation_Units
     
     '10.3'  function Unit_Origin
             - A_Predefined_Unit origin is returned for compilation units
               listed in RM95, Annex A (2), and only for these units;
     
             - An_Implementation_Unit origin is returned for compilation
               units which are the components of the GNAT Run-Time
               Library, but which are not mentioned in RM95, Annex A (2);
     
             - An_Application_Unit origin is returned for all the other
               compilation units;
     
     
     '10.6'  function Library_Unit_Declaration
     '10.7'  function Compilation_Unit_Body
             - when processing a Context associated with -FS or -FM
               option, for both of these queries, if ASIS cannot find a
               needed unit in the tree files which have been already
               processed, it tries to create the needed tree by locating
               the source of the unit and compiling it on the fly. If
               this attempt fails by any reason, Nil_Compilation_Unit
               is returned;
     
     '10.13' function Corresponding_Declaration:
             - ASIS-for-GNAT does not make use of ASIS Compilation Units
               of An_Unknown_Unit kind;
             - if an argument is of A_Public_Declaration_And_Body class,
               Nil_Compilation_Unit is returned;
     
     '10.14' function Corresponding_Body
             - ASIS-for-GNAT does not make use of ASIS Compilation Units
               of An_Unknown_Unit kind;
     
     '10.22' function Can_Be_Main_Program
             - for GNAT, any parameterless library procedure and any
               parameterless library function returning the result of
               (any) integer type is classified by this query as a
               (possible) main subprogram for partition;
     
             - If for such a library subprogram both spec and body exist
               as ASIS Compilation Units retrievable form a given ASIS
               Context, both of them are considered as
               Can_Be_Main_Program
     
     '10.24' function Text_Name
             - this function returns the name of the source file
               containing the source of Compilation_Unit. This name may
               or may not contain a prefix indicating the directory in
               the underlying file system, the directory indication may
               be given in absolute or the relative form, depending on
               the command line options which were used for the call
               to GNAT that created the corresponding tree file;
             - this function does not check the existence of the
               corresponding source file in the underlying file system,
               it just reflects the situation which was in effect when
               the corresponding tree file was created. Thus, if you
               delete or move the corresponding source file after
               creating the tree, the full file name returned by this
               function will be incorrect;
             - in case of inconsistency (that is, when several versions
               of the unit's source were used for creating the tree files
               making up the given ASIS Context), the name of the latest
               version of the source is returned.
     
     '10.25' function Text_Form
             - In the GNAT compilation model all source files are
               ordinary text files in the underlying file system.
               Therefore this function always returns a Nil_Asis_String
               to indicate that Text_IO.Open uses the default options for
               manipulating Ada sources.
     '10.29' function Has_Attribute
             - Returns False. ASIS-for-GNAT does not provide any
               additional attributes for Compilation Units.
     
     '10.30' function Attribute_Value_Delimiter
             - Returns (wide) string of the length one and containing LF
               (wide) character.
     
     '10.31' function Attribute_Values
             - a null string is returned
     
     
     '11' package Asis.Compilation_Units.Times
     
     '11.2'  function Time_Of_Last_Update
             - This function returns the time stamp of the corresponding
               source file. The corresponding source file is the source
               file whose name is returned by Asis.Compilation_Units.
               Text_Name. That is to say, this function returns the time
               of the latest change to the sources for the unit.
     
     '13' package Asis.Elements
     
     '13.3'  function Context_Clause_Elements
             - this function returns exactly those clauses and pragmas
               which are in the source for the unit.
             - returns Nil_Element_List for Nonexistent or Unknown unit.
             - returns Nil_Element_List for the predefined package
               Standard. For all other predefined Ada compilation units,
               returns their context clauses as they appear in the
               sources held in the GNAT Run-Time Library.
     
     '13.5'  function Compilation_Pragmas
             - this function returns exactly those pragmas which are in
               the source for the unit, both in the context clause and
               after the end of the text of the compilation unit proper.
             - returns Nil_Element_List for Nonexistent or Unknown unit.
     
             - returns Nil_Element_List for the predefined package
               Standard. For all the other predefined Ada compilation
               units, returns the pragmas found in the corresponding
               sources in the GNAT Run-Time Library.
     
     '13.36' function Enclosing_Element
             - ASIS-for-GNAT does not actually require the
               Element_Context parameter. The Enclosing_Element function
               with two parameters just calls the Enclosing_Element
               function with one parameter for its Element parameter.
     
     
     '15' package Asis.Declarations
     
     '15.24' function Body_Block_Statement
             - If the body passed as the actual has no declarative items
               on its own, Asis.Statements.Is_Declare_Block returns FALSE
               for the result of this function
     
     '17' package Asis.Expressions
     
     '17.6'  function Corresponding_Name_Definition
             - if an argument Reference name is declared implicitly, then
               if it denotes a user-defined inherited subprogram, the
               corresponding non-nil defining name Element is returned.
               Otherwise the function returns Nil_Element.
     
     '17.8'  function Corresponding_Name_Declaration
             - if an argument Reference name is declared implicitly, then
               if it denotes a user-defined inherited subprogram, the
               corresponding non-nil declaration Element is returned.
               Otherwise the function returns Nil_Element.
     
     '17.29' function Corresponding_Called_Function
             - For implicitly declared functions, if the actual is an
               expression that represents a call to an predefined
               operation, Nil_Element is returned. If it is a call to an
               implicitly declared user-defined inherited operation, the
               corresponding (implicit) function declaration is returned;
     
     '18' package Asis.Statements
     
     '18.14' function Is_Declare_Block
             - If the argument represents the dummy block statement
               created by Asis.Declarations.Body_Block_Statement
               function, the result will be True if and only if the
               corresponding body has declarative items on its own.
     
     
     '20' package Asis.Text
     
     '20.1'  type Line
             - Lines in ASIS-for-GNAT do not contain any character which
               signify end of line according to RM95, 2.2(2)
     
     '20.22' function Delimiter_Image
             - Returns (wide) string of the length one and containing LF
              (wide) character.


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Restrictions Specific to -FS and -FM Context options
====================================================

The following queries from Asis.Compilation_Units are not implemented
for a Context associated with -FS or -FM Context option:

        Library_Unit_Declarations
        Compilation_Unit_Bodies
        Compilation_Units
        Corresponding_Children
        Corresponding_Body (formally, this function is implemented, but
                            it may give wrong results)
        Subunits


File: asis_rm.info,  Node: Debugging Information,  Prev: Implementation-Specific Features and Implementation Permissions,  Up: Top

Debugging Information
*********************

There are two kinds of the debugging information available in
ASIS-for-GNAT - debug images returned by the ASIS queries Debug_Image
for Contexts, Compilation Units and Elements, and debug output
generated by ASIS queries when the corresponding implementation debug
flag is set ON during ASIS initialization (see *Note Parameters of
AsisImplementationInitialize Procedure::).

* Menu:

* Interpreting Debug Images::
* ASIS Debug Flags::


File: asis_rm.info,  Node: Interpreting Debug Images,  Next: ASIS Debug Flags,  Up: Debugging Information

Interpreting Debug Images
=========================

It is easy to interpret the debug images generated for the main ASIS
abstractions, because most of the information being generated directly
corresponds to ASIS notions. The following details of debug images are
implementation-specific:

   * Context

    `Context Id'
          this is the internal Context Id used in the internal
          implementation data structures. This Id is assigned to a
          Context when it is associated for the first time, and it
          remains unchanged and unique unlit ASIS is finalized.

    `All tree files'
          the number of the tree files making up the given Context

   * Compilation_Unit

    `Unit Id'
          this is the internal Compilation_Unit Id used in the internal
          implementation data structures. This Id remains unchanged and
          unique unlit the unit's enclosed Context is closed.

    `Is consistent'
          TRUE if the same version of the unit's source was used for
          all the tree files making up the enclosed unit's context, and
          FALSE otherwise

   * Element

    `Node, R_Node, Node_Field_1'
          tree nodes on which the internal representation of a given
          Element is based. They are meaningful only in the tree file
          indicated in the Enclosing_Tree field of the debug image

    `Special Case'
          implementation-specific indication of the cases when the
          element needs some special processing

    `"obtained from the tree"'
          the Id and the name of the tree file from which the
          tree-specific fields of the internal representation of given
          Element were obtained

    `Rel_Sloc'
          indicates the (relative) position of the source text of the
          Element, counting from the beginning of the source of its
          enclosing compilation unit. Makes sense for implicit Elements
          also.



File: asis_rm.info,  Node: ASIS Debug Flags,  Prev: Interpreting Debug Images,  Up: Debugging Information

ASIS Debug Flags
================

   ASIS provides several internal debug flags which are described in
a_debug.adb.  Their setting generates (to stdout) useful internal
debugging information.  This information is not always user-oriented,
but the following debug flags may be useful for the ASIS user:

`-dc'
     outputs the content of the internal data structures for a Context,
     when         the Context is closed and dissociated. By analyzing
     this information,         you may map other debug information onto
     unit and tree Ids.

`-di'
     turns off including the location of an Element into its
     Debug_Image.          It may be useful if an ASIS program crashes
     because of some problem         with ASIS structural queries
     (structural queries are used by         Element's Debug_Image
     query to compute the source location of the         argument).

`-do'
     when the Context is opened, lists the tree files being processed,
     and         the ones selected to represent a given Context

`-dt'
     outputs a message every time when a tree file is read in. This
        information may be useful to analyze the "tree swapping
     profile of        your application to cut down the number of tree
     swapping.



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