[antlr-interest] Why these lex rules make the generated .c source file grow to over 40M size?

[Johannes Luber]

> I found using the same lex rule,the size of the generated .Java file is
> much
> smaller than the generated .C file.For example, the size of
> the generated  .Java file is 124K, while the size of .c file could reach
> to
> 14M!!!

Probably the C target doesn't implement the compressed format for DFAs. Shouldn't be too difficult to add.

Johannes
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