CMSIS-SVD Repository and Parsers provides a python package for parsing SVD files. VincentDary suggested in PR #172 a new pre-processing step to fix some parsing issues. Out of curiosity I created this repository to validate the results of the existing parser (later on called original package) against the results of the applied PR (later on called new package).

The parsers SVDParserOriginal and SVDParserNew are executed on all files in directory data. If both parsers are successful, the results (converted to dictionaries using <parser>.get_dive().to_dict()) are compared. If the results do not match, a corresponding directory is created in directory differences, where the dictionaries are stored as original.txt and new.txt. The results can be compared with Visual Studio Code in diff mode.

cd ./differences/Allwinner-Community/D1-H.svd
code --diff original.txt new.txt

For both, the original and the new package, PR #176 was applied. Without this patch to_dict() throws an exception for some SVD files.

I really like the pre-processing approach and in my opinion it's the way to go. The pre-processing solves multiple issues at once, does not affect the processing time in a noteworthy way, and, based on a random sample validation, works as expected.