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07/20/2026

08:55 AM Bug #11636: errors raised during evaluation of &IF expressions drop the entire &IF

Right. I expanded the cases where an expression evaluation is broken in a preprocessor statement. The initial version... Octavian Adrian Gavril

07:46 AM Bug #11636: errors raised during evaluation of &IF expressions drop the entire &IF

Octavian Adrian Gavril wrote:
> Thanks! I've added the testcase as @preprocessor_if_eval_error.xml@ in *testcases/18... Constantin Asofiei

04:17 AM Bug #11636: errors raised during evaluation of &IF expressions drop the entire &IF

Thanks! I've added the testcase as @preprocessor_if_eval_error.xml@ in *testcases/1852*. Octavian Adrian Gavril

03:25 AM Bug #11636: errors raised during evaluation of &IF expressions drop the entire &IF

Octavian Adrian Gavril wrote:
> Greg Shah wrote:
> > Octavian: Please add this to our preproc tests.
>
> Sure. I... Constantin Asofiei

03:20 AM Bug #11636: errors raised during evaluation of &IF expressions drop the entire &IF

Greg Shah wrote:
> Octavian: Please add this to our preproc tests.
Sure. I'm currently working on it, but the Pre... Octavian Adrian Gavril

07/17/2026

11:17 AM Bug #11636: errors raised during evaluation of &IF expressions drop the entire &IF

Octavian: Please add this to our preproc tests. Greg Shah

11:01 AM Bug #11636: errors raised during evaluation of &IF expressions drop the entire &IF

Errors in evaluation of a @&IF@ expression drops the entire statement. See this:... Constantin Asofiei

10:57 AM Bug #11636 (New): errors raised during evaluation of &IF expressions drop the entire &IF

Constantin Asofiei

07/16/2026

07:51 AM Bug #10028: FWD needs full support for unicode/octal escape sequences

Some issues with the @control_characters.p@ test set involved two aspects regarding how the null character (@~000@) i... Octavian Adrian Gavril

07/15/2026

10:19 AM Feature #10804: create replacement AST implementation for use with ANTLR 4

10804b rev *16672* contains the necessary changes to preserve the legacy @DynamicQueryHelper@ behavior (along with a ... Paula Păstrăguș

08:09 AM Bug #10028: FWD needs full support for unicode/octal escape sequences

I’ve created branch *10028a* to continue working on this. From what I recall, there are two sets of tests that I crea... Octavian Adrian Gavril

07/14/2026

10:15 AM Feature #10804: create replacement AST implementation for use with ANTLR 4

Currently we analyse ANTLR2's @RecognitionException@, @CharStreamException@ and @TokenStreamException@ when an error ... Ovidiu Maxiniuc

10:04 AM Feature #10804: create replacement AST implementation for use with ANTLR 4

ANTLR4 provides two built-in error strategies: @DefaultErrorStrategy@, which attempts recovery, and @BailErrorStrateg... Paula Păstrăguș

09:54 AM Feature #10804: create replacement AST implementation for use with ANTLR 4

Indeed, the @showConversionError()@ is using heuristics to compose the error message to be printed. I quote from its ... Ovidiu Maxiniuc

09:29 AM Feature #10804: create replacement AST implementation for use with ANTLR 4

We have not spent time matching their exact token failures. The more important thing is to ensure that we do fail fo... Greg Shah

09:19 AM Feature #10804: create replacement AST implementation for use with ANTLR 4

Hm... I think we may have an issue in trunk. The test case above, along with several others, does not produce *exactl... Paula Păstrăguș

07:15 AM Feature #10804: create replacement AST implementation for use with ANTLR 4

Ovidiu, is the token you are referring to usually the *last* *token* produced by the lexer?
Exception handling cha... Paula Păstrăguș

10:04 AM Feature #7178: move the buffer scoping calculations to parse time

I went over more and more related issue and added another 100+ tests from multiple issues, had to rewrite most of the... Dănuț Filimon

08:00 AM Feature #9638: resolve OO dependencies during parsing using annotations in already converted classes

I tested the last revision with the OO application and encountered an issue regarding built-in classes that are not i... Octavian Adrian Gavril

07/13/2026

11:35 AM Feature #10804: create replacement AST implementation for use with ANTLR 4

While recovering from an error is usually a nice thing to have, in our case *we should behave similar to 4GL parser*.... Ovidiu Maxiniuc

09:50 AM Feature #10804: create replacement AST implementation for use with ANTLR 4

One of the remaining gaps for this issue is *DynamicQueryHelper*. The unresolved part is the runtime parser error han... Paula Păstrăguș

09:04 AM Feature #10804: create replacement AST implementation for use with ANTLR 4

10804b rev *16632* moves the changes from @progress.g@ revisions 437, 438 and 439 into the ProgressParser itself. It ... Paula Păstrăguș

10:03 AM Feature #9638: resolve OO dependencies during parsing using annotations in already converted classes

Rebased branch *9638a* with trunk *rev16648*. The new revision is *16665*. Octavian Adrian Gavril

09:52 AM Feature #9638: resolve OO dependencies during parsing using annotations in already converted classes

I've noticed some warnings about null class names for objects referenced by class variables. I've committed a fix in ... Octavian Adrian Gavril

03:35 AM Feature #9638: resolve OO dependencies during parsing using annotations in already converted classes

I've noticed that the current implementation translates the @HANDLE@ type to the @TABLE-HANDLE@ type based on ASTs on... Octavian Adrian Gavril

07:31 AM Feature #7178: move the buffer scoping calculations to parse time

Dănuț Filimon wrote:
> Greg Shah wrote:
> > In the latest standard workstation, I've added a tool called @bzr-issue... Dănuț Filimon

07:25 AM Feature #7178: move the buffer scoping calculations to parse time

Greg Shah wrote:
> In the latest standard workstation, I've added a tool called @bzr-issues@ which can be used to bu... Dănuț Filimon

07/10/2026

09:15 AM Feature #10804: create replacement AST implementation for use with ANTLR 4

10804b rev *16631* resolved a regression introduced in the previous revision, where @RUN@ statements were no longer p... Paula Păstrăguș

06:47 AM Feature #9638: resolve OO dependencies during parsing using annotations in already converted classes

I created this testcase based on the changes made to @oo@ package so far:
{{collapse... Octavian Adrian Gavril

07/09/2026

11:31 AM Feature #10804: create replacement AST implementation for use with ANTLR 4

*10804b* *rev* *16630* resolved a performance bottleneck by introducing @predictSelectionListPhrase__561@, improving ... Paula Păstrăguș

07/06/2026

09:05 AM Feature #10804: create replacement AST implementation for use with ANTLR 4

The issue was solved, latest 10804b rev is *16627*.
I'll run another overnight conversion, it shouldn't hang at th... Paula Păstrăguș

07:58 AM Feature #7178: move the buffer scoping calculations to parse time

I integrated the remaining tests from #7178-25 and #7178-27. Dănuț Filimon

07/03/2026

01:56 PM Feature #10804: create replacement AST implementation for use with ANTLR 4

I have some good news to share! One of the larger applications successfully passed the first phase of the conversion,... Paula Păstrăguș

07/02/2026

09:35 AM Feature #9638: resolve OO dependencies during parsing using annotations in already converted classes

During today's meeting, we decided to keep the changes in the @oo@ package since the @skeleton@ project is difficult ... Octavian Adrian Gavril

07:48 AM Feature #7178: move the buffer scoping calculations to parse time

> I can still integrate tests from #4105, #4121, #4207, #4208, #4231 (double check), #4440, #4492, #4782, #4791, #665... Greg Shah

06:41 AM Feature #7178: move the buffer scoping calculations to parse time

Second round.
I did not find any tests for #4123, #4124, #4147, #4160, #4162, #4170, #4171, #4174, #4181, #4182, #... Dănuț Filimon

07/01/2026

09:47 AM Feature #7178: move the buffer scoping calculations to parse time

> Greg, I think there's a good reason to go into the related tasks for all those tasks and check if we can find more ... Greg Shah

09:41 AM Feature #7178: move the buffer scoping calculations to parse time

Amazing!
I did not find any tests for #1521, #1868, #1896, #1969, #2683, #3024, #3253, #3255, #3310, #3471, #3490,... Dănuț Filimon

05:20 AM Feature #9638: resolve OO dependencies during parsing using annotations in already converted classes

It looks like the test case above isn't compiling in OE and requires a @SUPER()@ call to be correct. Consequently, I ... Octavian Adrian Gavril

06/30/2026

10:23 AM Feature #7178: move the buffer scoping calculations to parse time

In the latest standard workstation, I've added a tool called @bzr-issues@ which can be used to build a list of all ta... Greg Shah

06/29/2026

03:15 PM Feature #1757: update ANTLR to latest version

A wiki page with guidance on how we migrate from ANTLR2 to ANTLR4 is in [[p2j:ANTLR Migration Guide]]. Greg Shah

06/24/2026

10:06 AM Feature #6320: sharded schemata

Yes, using a per-module namespace would be a way to solve the issue I noted in #6320-5. Greg Shah

10:03 AM Feature #6320: sharded schemata

Greg Shah wrote:
> > This means that apps/modules need to be able to be converted in pieces and executed at runtime ... Octavian Adrian Gavril

07:08 AM Feature #7178: move the buffer scoping calculations to parse time

I've wrapped up the FOR EACH WHERE/BY, dataset with relation-fields, lots of unqualified fields/tables tests.
I'm ... Dănuț Filimon