[Lazarus] Using FPC parser/tokenizer for code formatting

[Mattias Gärtner]

Zitat von Adem <listmember at letterboxes.org>:

> [...]
>> The compiler simply discards comments and it has no infrastructure to
>> link comments in any way to code.
>>
> Naturally, comments are no good for the compiler --so, I am assuming  
> that the current parser does recognise comments but does not add  
> them to the parse tree; if so, it is fine, all it will have to do is  
> to add those nodes while the compiler still ignores them. Would that  
> be too difficult to add?

I think the biggest problems are the directives. The compiler parser  
simply skips ELSE code.
A code formatter should not ignore that parts.
How do you want to format an include file for another target?
How to handle macros?


Mattias