[antlr-interest] ambiguity

[Adrian Sandor]

I'm trying to parse C++ source code (for writing a formatter), and I 
stumbled on a problem
take a look at this program:

//---snip
int f(int x){return x;}
typedef char c;

int main()
{
int x=5, y;
y=(f)(x);
y=(c)(x);
}
//---snip

it compiles ok, and look at the last 2 instructions: lexically they 
are identical, but semantically the first one is a function call and 
the second one is a cast
the question is.. how should I write the parser? should I still try 
to distinguish the 2 instructions, or should I treat them the same 
way sintactically? (for this project it could be ok)

thanks

Adrian


 

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