[antlr-interest] Status of C++ support for ANTLR 3

Jim Idle jimi at temporal-wave.com
Mon Nov 10 15:25:09 PST 2008


On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 14:34 -0800, Matthew E. Boyce wrote:
> Hello everyone... I've been using ANTLR 2 for several years now and  
> would like to make the switch to ANTLR 3 while at the same time  
> switching target languages (our old parser was java), but current  
> support for C++ through the C support seems to be a little clumsy.  On  
> the target languages wiki it says that "C++ classes will be provided  
> as a separate library later in 2008."  It's pretty late into 2008, so  
> I'm wondering if this has been abandoned or postponed.  I would much  
> prefer using ANTLR 3, but other members of my project would like to go  
> back to ANTLR 2 without this support.
> 

Still going to do this. However, I am a bit overloaded at the moment.
Try the C with C++ optoin though as there should be so little
interaction between your grammar and C++ code that I don't think you
will have any issues of clumsiness really. Your grammar action code
shoudl just be calling external methods really.

Jim

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