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-- GNAT COMPILER COMPONENTS --
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-- This package contains routines to output error messages and the
-- corresponding instantiation of Styleg, suitable to instantiate Scng.
-- It uses the same global variables as Errout, located in packages Atree and
-- Err_Vars. Like Errout, it also uses the common variables and routines
-- in package Erroutc.
-- This package is used by the preprocessor (gprep.adb).
with Styleg;
with Types; use Types;
package Errutil is
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-- Error Message Text and Message Insertion Characters --
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-- Error message text strings are composed of lower case letters, digits
-- and the special characters space, comma, period, colon and semicolon,
-- apostrophe and parentheses. Special insertion characters can also
-- appear which cause the error message circuit to modify the given
-- string. For a full list of these, see the spec of errout.
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-- Format of Messages and Manual Quotation Control --
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-- Messages are generally all in lower case, except for inserted names
-- and appear in one of the following two forms:
-- error: text
-- warning: text
-- The prefixes error and warning are supplied automatically (depending
-- on the use of the ? insertion character), and the call to the error
-- message routine supplies the text. The "error: " prefix is omitted
-- in brief error message formats.
-- Reserved keywords in the message are in the default keyword case
-- (determined from the given source program), surrounded by quotation
-- marks. This is achieved by spelling the reserved word in upper case
-- letters, which is recognized as a request for insertion of quotation
-- marks by the error text processor. Thus for example:
-- Error_Msg_AP ("IS expected");
-- would result in the output of one of the following:
-- error: "is" expected
-- error: "IS" expected
-- error: "Is" expected
-- the choice between these being made by looking at the casing convention
-- used for keywords (actually the first compilation unit keyword) in the
-- source file.
-- In the case of names, the default mode for the error text processor
-- is to surround the name by quotation marks automatically. The case
-- used for the identifier names is taken from the source program where
-- possible, and otherwise is the default casing convention taken from
-- the source file usage.
-- In some cases, better control over the placement of quote marks is
-- required. This is achieved using manual quotation mode. In this mode,
-- one or more insertion sequences is surrounded by backquote characters.
-- The backquote characters are output as double quote marks, and normal
-- automatic insertion of quotes is suppressed between the double quotes.
-- For example:
-- Error_Msg_AP ("`END &;` expected");
-- generates a message like
-- error: "end Open_Scope;" expected
-- where the node specifying the name Open_Scope has been stored in
-- Error_Msg_Node_1 prior to the call. The great majority of error
-- messages operates in normal quotation mode.
-- Note: the normal automatic insertion of spaces before insertion
-- sequences (such as those that come from & and %) is suppressed in
-- manual quotation mode, so blanks, if needed as in the above example,
-- must be explicitly present.
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-- Error Output Subprograms --
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procedure Initialize;
-- Initializes for output of error messages. Must be called for each
-- file before using any of the other routines in the package.
procedure Finalize (Source_Type : String := "project");
-- Finalize processing of error messages for one file and output message
-- indicating the number of detected errors.
-- Source_Type is used in verbose mode to indicate the type of the source
-- being parsed (project file, definition file or input file for the
-- preprocessor).
procedure Error_Msg (Msg : String; Flag_Location : Source_Ptr);
-- Output a message at specified location
procedure Error_Msg_S (Msg : String);
-- Output a message at current scan pointer location
procedure Error_Msg_SC (Msg : String);
-- Output a message at the start of the current token, unless we are at
-- the end of file, in which case we always output the message after the
-- last real token in the file.
procedure Error_Msg_SP (Msg : String);
-- Output a message at the start of the previous token
procedure Set_Ignore_Errors (To : Boolean);
-- Indicate, when To = True, that all reported errors should
-- be ignored. By default reported errors are not ignored.
package Style is new Styleg
(Error_Msg => Error_Msg,
Error_Msg_S => Error_Msg_S,
Error_Msg_SC => Error_Msg_SC,
Error_Msg_SP => Error_Msg_SP);
-- Instantiation of the generic style package, suitable for an
-- instantiation of Scng.
end Errutil;