[antlr-interest] ANTLR C: Question regarding the portability of generated lexer C code

[Jim Idle]

No - it works, but you have to be careful to avoid ANTLR merging the ranges. See my later post.

Jim

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> portability of generated lexer C code
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> Jim Idle wrote:
> [...]
> > Change the ranges to:
> >
> > ID: ‘a’..’k’ | ‘l’..’t’ …
> 
> I doubt that will work. The generated code sometimes uses character
> literals, sometimes string literals, and sometimes Unicode code point
> values. The code can't be compiled as EBCDIC because the code point
> values are not EBCDIC codes.
> 
> It would be easier to hack the C target so that it avoids character
> literals, and uses only \x escapes in string literals.
> 
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