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From: Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org (Colin Paul Gloster)
Subject: Re: Free Ada parser
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NASA veteran Stephen Leake wrote:

"jesus.quirce.garcia@esa.int (J Quirce) writes:

> Hi, 
> 
> I am just joining the group after a quite long and discusting weg
> search of any kind of "executable ada grammar". I mean, an Ada 95 one
> ready for processing by Yacc, Bison or any other more or less
> reasonable compiler compiler.
> 
> Do you have any idea on where can I get it?
  
[..]"

If Yacc-compatibility is really important, then you could try Ayacc and
Alex but I do not know whether they support Ada 95. They are on many of
the CDs posted with the journal "Ada Letters", which ESA subscribes to.

If instead a "reasonable" tool would really be top-down then you could try
the Ada 9X grammar for the Java Compiler Compiler which does not support
fixed types. The grammar is at
HTTP://WWW.Cobase.CS.UCLA.edu/pub/javacc/ada9x.jj and recent versions of
JavaCC are at HTTPS://JavaCC.dev.Java.net/