C target broken in antlr >= 3.5

[mjakubicek]

The C target is entirely broken in antlr >= 3.5. In earlier versions there was a warning which became an error in antlr >= 3.5:

error(24): template error: context [/outputFile /parser] 1:1 could not pass through undefined attribute filterMode

making antlr not producing lexer code.

[opoplawski]

We seem to see similar with cvc4 and belle-sip. Ultimately leads to errors like:

generated/Smt1Lexer.c:1759:41: error: '_empty' was not declared in this scope
     dfa13_T182, dfa13_T143, dfa13_T209, _empty, _empty, _empty, dfa13_T53, 

[mjakubicek]

Dear Orion,

I was getting these kinds of errors even before too and fixed them (in my case) by:

@lexer::includes { #define _empty NULL }

Its a pity that the C target is in such a bad shape (and reason why we are moving off from Antlr after 10 years of using it in our developments).

Milos

2015-09-01 4:25 GMT+02:00 Orion Poplawski [email protected]:

We seem to see similar with cvc4 and belle-sip. Ultimately leads to errors like:

generated/Smt1Lexer.c:1759:41: error: '_empty' was not declared in this scope dfa13_T182, dfa13_T143, dfa13_T209, _empty, _empty, _empty, dfa13_T53,

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[opoplawski]

Thanks, that may be helpful for cvc4, bit in the belle-sip case, we can't get around the antlr template error:

error(24):  template error: context [/outputFile /parser] 1:1 could not pass through undefined attribute filterMode

[opoplawski]

I see lots of people reporting that error as a warning. Not sure why it appears as an error for belle-sip.

[mjakubicek]

That is what changed from 3.4 to 3.5: it was a warning, now it is an error. Dne 1. 9. 2015 17:19 napsal uživatel "Orion Poplawski" < [email protected]>:

I see lots of people reporting that error as a warning. Not sure why it appears as an error for belle-sip.

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[ibre5041]

I think this regression shown up between 3.5 releases. Maybe 3.5.1 => 3.5.2. It has something to do with StringTemplate library used internally by Antlr. About year ago I went through C++ target and have fixed these warnings at least for this one. If somebody is willing to fix this, I recommend to go though these commits (it should be easy to port these fixes back into the C target). https://github.com/ibre5041/antlr3/commits/master?page=3. Also this patch significantly improves performance of generated parser (when using predicates): https://github.com/ibre5041/antlr3/commit/e36baba6c96a9ffa034cd6f61321c17d01abf7fc