[antlr-interest] @init actions in “C Target” have problems with MSVS compilers

Alexander Stasenko astasenko at gmail.com
Thu Mar 22 06:34:27 PDT 2007


Consider the following rule with @init action:

		CharacterConstant @init {
				char c; int o;
		}
...

For C target the following code will be generated:

		void mCharacterConstant(pSisal2Lexer ctx)
		{
	
	
		    ANTLR3_UINT32	    _type;
		    ANTLR3_UINT64	    _start;
		    ANTLR3_UINT64	    _end;
		    ANTLR3_UINT64	    _line;
		    ANTLR3_UINT32	    _charPosition;
		    ANTLR3_UINT32	    _channel;
	
		    /* Initialize rule variables
		     */


		    ctx->pLexer->ruleNestingLevel++;
		    _type	    = CharacterConstant;
		    _start	    = getCharIndex();
		    _end	    = 0;
		    _line	    = getLine();
		    _charPosition   = getCharPositionInLine();
		    _channel	    = ANTLR3_TOKEN_DEFAULT_CHANNEL;

	
		    	char c; int o;
...

MSVS 2005 compiler can not compiler it since "char c; int o;"
declarations are placed after executable statements. This restriction
was relazed in C99 standart which is unfortunately is not supported
even in MSVS 2005 in its C-mode. Trying to compile in C++ mode causes
other problems in other places, so usage of C++ mode is not a solution
here.

Is there any possible workaround? Thanks at advance.

-- 
Best regards, Alexander.


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