gnatpp (1)

gnatpp [options] {filename | -files filename} [gcc_switches]

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.

-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".

gnat(1), asistant(1), gnat2xml(1), gnatcheck(1), gnatelim(1), gnatmetric(1), gnatstub(1), gnattest(1)

Documentation about the ASIS tools may be found in /usr/share/doc/asis-doc/ if the asis-doc package is installed. The reference documentation about ASIS is excluded due to license problems, but may be found in various formats at http://libre.adacore.com/developers/documentation.