[antlr-interest] Exit Status from ANTLR

Wincent Colaiuta win at wincent.com
Wed Jun 27 00:25:18 PDT 2007


El 27/6/2007, a las 8:38, Robin Davies escribió:

>> >> I want an exit status from the ANTLR parser generator tool, not
>> >> from the parsers it generates.
>> >
>
> Although an error count in the runtime would be nice too. At this  
> point, I can't imagine that anyone is NOT going to have to find the  
> right error message function in parsers and/or lexers to override  
> just so that they can go ++Error, just so that they can return  
> failures when running generated grammars.  (Is this a C# runtime  
> thing, or do all runtimes suffer from that?)

I can only speak for the C runtime, but it does count errors. Seeing  
as C doesn't support exceptions, checking the error count is in fact  
the only way to find out if something went wrong.

Cheers,
Wincent



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