[antlr-interest] Examples of semantic predicates with extremely long generated code

Loring Craymer lgcraymer at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 4 10:49:37 PDT 2011


Sam--

Are you working on the SemanticContext classes for this?  That seems to be where 
the problem originates--no effort is made to refactor generated trees.

--Loring



----- Original Message ----
> From: Sam Harwell <sharwell at pixelminegames.com>
> To: Terence Parr <parrt at cs.usfca.edu>; antlr-interest Interest 
><antlr-interest at antlr.org>
> Sent: Mon, April 4, 2011 10:23:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] Examples of semantic predicates with extremely 
>long generated code
> 
> For the example at the bottom of ANTLR-245, I get the following condition  in
> args, element, and element2  (respectively):
> 
> !((((true)||(false))))
> 
> !((false))
> 
> !((true))
> 
> The  tool doesn't have target language analysis, so true and false here might
> as  well be X and Y.
> 
> I'll work on getting this into the Java version after  some more testing.
> 
> Sam
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org]  On Behalf Of Terence Parr
> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 12:02 PM
> To:  antlr-interest Interest
> Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] Examples of semantic  predicates with extremely
> long generated code
> 
> Looks like I have three  different bugs entered
> 
> http://www.antlr.org/jira/browse/ANTLR-393
> http://www.antlr.org/jira/browse/ANTLR-430
> http://www.antlr.org/jira/browse/ANTLR-245
> 
>  I recall that at least  one of them had a small example.
> T
> On Apr 4, 2011, at 9:58 AM, Sam Harwell  wrote:
> 
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > For certain cases of semantic  predicates, ANTLR generates some 
> > *extremely* long, complicated, and  redundant conditionals in the 
> > output code. I've been working on  resolving this issue, and I'm 
> > looking for some examples of these  grammars to make sure my updates 
> > properly reduce these conditionals.  Does anyone have a sample they can
> send me?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> >  Sam
> > 
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