## About Understand for Ada Projects

Understand for Ada is like a compiler, except it creates information, not executable code.

In order for Understand for Ada to analyze your source code it needs much of the same information that your compiler needs. Specifically it needs to know:

- What source files to analyze.

If you developed the program or have been working with it for some time, this information is probably obvious to you. However, if you inherited this source code from another programmer, team, or company, you will probably have to examine the project building files (e.g. makefile) in order to come up with the information needed for accurate parsing of the code.

The easiest way to analyze your code is to use Understand for Ada’s GUI to build and parse a project.

You can also use command line tools for batch processing of source files and generation of information reports. Refer to Command Line Processing for details on the command line tools.

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