[antlr-interest] unable to run or debug grammar in antlrworks 1.4 on Windows XP

[Jim Idle]

You just need to add -Xconversiontimeout 10000 in the antlrworks preferences. However if your lexer generation is timing out, then examine it closely and see if you can't left factor things better.

Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org [mailto:antlr-interest-
> bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Haley
> Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 3:06 AM
> To: antlr-interest at antlr.org
> Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] unable to run or debug grammar in
> antlrworks 1.4 on Windows XP
> 
> On 07/03/2010 10:14 PM, Matt Palmer wrote:
> > I should add, in case the way I phrased the problem is causing any
> > confusion: The grammar itself is fine (well - it works - it may not
> be very
> > elegant!).  Code can be generated.  I have no warnings or errors.
> The
> > problem is whether the debugger in antlrworks will choose to start
> up, or
> > time out.
> 
> I had this problem too.  The only way seemed to be to edit the source
> code
> of ANTLR to fix the timeout.
> 
> --- antlr-3.2/tool/src/main/java/org/antlr/analysis/DFA.java~   2009-
> 09-23 19:36:06.000000000 +0100
> +++ antlr-3.2/tool/src/main/java/org/antlr/analysis/DFA.java    2010-
> 01-21 13:08:32.625782840 +0000
> @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
>          */
> 
>         /** Set to 0 to not terminate early (time in ms) */
> -       public static int MAX_TIME_PER_DFA_CREATION = 1*1000;
> +       public static int MAX_TIME_PER_DFA_CREATION = 10*1000;
> 
>         /** How many edges can each DFA state have before a "special"
> state
>          *  is created that uses IF expressions instead of a table?
> 
> The core problem was that antlrworks didn't allow this timeout to be
> tweaked.
> 
> Andrew.
> 
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