Re: Delphi parser from TextTransformer grammar

Marco van de Voort <marcov@stack.nl>
Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:54:04 +0000 (UTC)

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From: Marco van de Voort <marcov@stack.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:54:04 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: Stack Usenet News Service
References: 09-08-040
Keywords: Pascal
Posted-Date: 28 Aug 2009 19:52:16 EDT

On 2009-08-23, Detlef Meyer-Eltz <Meyer-Eltz@t-online.de> wrote:
> The reason is, that there are some special difficulties with the
> Delphi grammar:
>
> - there is no standard specification of this proprietary language. The
> specification has to be concluded from the Delphi help files. So
> indeed, the completeness of the grammar cannot be proved. The actual
> project can parse the complete VCL which accompanies the CBuilder 6
> and it was tested at more than 2000 files of my installed Delphi
> components.


You could try to run Free Pascal's testsuite. Many of the tests originate in
Delphi incompability bugreports.



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