[fpc-devel] Alternative parsers

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Michael Schnell said:
> >
> > I would like to see my C parser working as an FPC front-end,
> 
> I feel that there in fact is a decent cause for doing a C(++) front-end 
> for the FPC compiler: importing existing C++ code into a Pascal project. 
> I suppose this is not possible completely without modifying the C++ code 
> this will not be possible in many cases (please don't start discussing 
> multiple inheritance ;-) ), but this would be a lot better than the 
> current situation where linking FPC and C++ is completely impossible due 
> to the different ABI.

As said thousands of times, it still will be different.

See e.g. Delphi and BCB, where C++ classes needed to be explicitely declared
(pureclass) to be usable from Delphi.