GNATPP(1) ASIS Tools GNATPP(1)
NAME
gnatpp - Ada pretty-printer
SYNOPSIS
gnatpp [options] {filename | -files filename} [gcc_switches]
DESCRIPTION
gnatpp recreates the source text of the specified Ada units from GNAT's parse tree. Along the way, it reformats the source text according
to the many options. The defaults are suitable for the GNAT style guide.
OPTIONS
-A(0|1|2|3|4|5)
set alignment, all the alignments are set ON by default
0 set the default for all the alignments OFF
1 align colons in declarations
2 align assignments in declarations
3 align assignments in assignment statements
4 align arrow delimiters in associations
5 align 'AT' keywords in component clauses
-a(L|U|M)
set attribute casing
L lower case
U upper case
M mixed case (set as default)
-c(0|1|2|3|4)
comments layout
0 do not format comments
1 GNAT style comment line indentation (set as default)
2 standard comment line indentation
3 GNAT style comment beginning
4 reformat comment blocks
-clnnn indentation level for continuation lines, nnn from 1 .. 9
-Dfile set file as the dictionary file defining casing exceptions
-D- do not use RM95-defined casing for predefined names, use casing defined by -n parameter and dictionary file(s) instead
-e do not set missed end/exit labels
-ff put Form Feed after a pragma Page
-gnatecpath
the same as GNAT -gnatec option
-innn indentation level, nnn from 1 .. 9, the default value is 3
-Idir the same as GNAT -I option
-I- the same as GNAT -I- option
-k(L|U)
set keyword casing
L lower case (set as default)
U upper case
-l(1|2|3)
set construct layout
1 GNAT style layout (set as default)
2 compact layout
3 uncompact layout
-Mnnn set maximum line length, nnn from 32 .. 256, the default value is 79
-n(D|U|L|M)
set name casing (for both defining and usage occurrences)
D as declared (set as default)
U all in upper case
L all in lower case
M mixed
-N no tabulation in comments
-p(L|U|M)
L lower case
U upper case
M mixed case (set as default)
--RTS=dir
the same as GNAT --RTS option
-Tnnn do not use additional indentation level for case alternatives and variants if their number is nnn or more (the default value is 10)
-q quiet mode
-v verbose mode
-dd progress indicator verbose mode
-w warnings ON
Output file control
-pipe send the output into stdout
-o output_file
write the output into output_file. Give up if output_file already exists
-of output_file
write the output into output_file, overriding the existing file
-r replace the argument source with the pretty-printed source and copy the argument source into filename.npp. Give up if filename.npp
already exists.
-rf replace the argument source with the pretty-printed source and copy the argument source into filename.npp, overriding the existing
file
-rnb replace the argument source with the pretty-printed source and do not create the back-up copy of the argument source
Input files
filename
the name of the Ada source file to be reformatted. Wildcards are allowed.
-files filename
the name of the text file containing a list of Ada source files to reformat
GCC switches
gcc_switches
Passed to gnatgcc as "-cargs gcc_switches".
AUTHOR
ASIS-for-GNAT was originally developed by the ASIS-for-GNAT team at the Software Engineering Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology (LGL-EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, in cooperation with the Scientific Research Computer Center of Moscow State University
(SRCC MSU), Russia, with funding partially provided by grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss Academy of Engineer-
ing Sciences. ASIS-for-GNAT is now maintained by AdaCore (http://www.adacore.com).
This manual page was written by Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> for the Debian project, from the gnatpp sources.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1995-2006, Free Software Foundation, Inc.
SEE ALSO
asistant(1), gnat(1), gnatcheck(1), gnatelim(1), gnatmetric(1),
gnatstub(1)
/usr/share/doc/asis-programs/README.gnatpp
info asis_ug ASIS-for-GNAT User's Guide, provided by by package
libasis-doc in the Info system, and in text, PDF and HTML formats in /usr/share/doc/libasis-doc. (asis-doc is in the non-free sec-
tion of Debian).
info asis_rm ASIS-for-GNAT Reference Manual, same package.
GNU Ada Tools June 2006 GNATPP(1)