[antlr-interest] [C target] [3.1.1] Deriving imaginary nodes from real tokens
Jim Idle
jimi at temporal-wave.com
Thu Dec 11 08:25:34 PST 2008
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 15:17 +0100, Sven Van Echelpoel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> According to the book you can derive imaginary nodes from real tokens to
> take over attributes (such as line number) from the latter. The syntax
> for this is :
>
> foo : b='bar' -> ^( BAR[ $b ] )
> ;
>
> However, when you do this with the C target, no line numbers or anything
> gets set. After some sleuthing I found the templates in AST.stg that
...
>
> It can be made to work by passing the second argument (the text), even
> though I have no use for that.
>
> foo : b='bar' -> ^( BAR[ $b, "" ] )
> ;
>
> Am I missing something, or should that normally work as advertised?
>
I'll take a look - does that snippet of code above reproduce it? What
options {} have you got set etc? If you have the time, then a small, but
complete, grammar would be helpful :-)
Jim
> Sven
>
>
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