[antlr-interest] Looping forever on some input

[Ola Bini]

Thomas Brandon wrote:
> The problem is most likely your DecimalLiteral rule:
> DecimalLiteral
>     :
>     ;
> Non-fragment lexer rules that can match no input will cause infinite loops.
> This may only occur for certain input as other input will be matched
> before ANTLR checks whether the troublesome rule can match. Having
> input that matches no other rule ensures such a rule will cause an
> infinite loop.
>
>   
Hi,

This turned out to be a bug in the rest of the implementation too - so 
the rest of the problem was not caused by parsing.

Thanks for the help.

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