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Add support for feature complete external VHDL parser #1080

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LarsAsplund opened this issue Dec 11, 2024 · 0 comments
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Add support for feature complete external VHDL parser #1080

LarsAsplund opened this issue Dec 11, 2024 · 0 comments
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LarsAsplund commented Dec 11, 2024

The VHDL parsing conducted by VUnit to detect dependencies between files such that a correct file order can be determined is limited in functionality due to the complexity of fully parsing all legal VHDL code. While we could put more efforts into the parser we're at the point of diminishing returns, especially when there are two existing solutions to the problem:

Another long-term solution is to support an external open source parser (that is fast enough). This issue is a place-holder for that such a solution and also collects closed issues related to parsing that are unlikely to be solved with our built-in parser.

Here are the closed issues:

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