[antlr-interest] Re: Request enhancement ANTLR

Terence Parr parrt at jguru.com
Thu Jun 20 17:28:03 PDT 2002


On Thursday, June 20, 2002, at 03:11  PM, micheal_jor wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> Problem:
>> ANTLR does not register filename information with tokens;
>> only line/column information.
>>
>> This becomes a problem when using include files in which
>> case it is unknown which source file a token originates from.
>>
>> Solution:
>> Add setFilename/getFilename to Token class and change
>> other classes (including code generators) to use this method.
>>
>> The impacted classes are: Token, CommonToken,
>> CharScanner, LexerSharedInputState, JavaCodeGenerator
>> and CppCodeGenerator.
>>
>> I'd be willing to implement these changes if we agree that this
>> enhancement is useful.
>
> Care to post the code? And same message to you too John Allen Green.
> It helps if others can try out the changes you propose...
>
> Quick note, is it possible to use a shared string table and just
> store a compact handle in each token?

This should happen by default as the filename will be one string that 
gets pointed to by every token.  I like this concept by the way, but I'm 
nervous about adding 4 bytes to every single token. 'course you can just 
make a subclass of CommonToken and then tell antlr to build those, right?

Ter


 

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