[antlr-interest] Binary support

[The Researcher]

seems to be an uncharted territory?

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Syntax_Notation_One

There are ANTLR gramamars for it. http://www.antlr.org/grammar/list

*ASN.1* <http://www.antlr.org/grammar/1231433381400/ASN.g>  and *SMI/SPPI/ASN.1
parser* <http://www.antlr.org/grammar/1105770765162/parsesmi-v1-15jan05.zip>

Of interest might be
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages/wireshark-filter.html

Eric




On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:07 PM, andreas kleiber <kleibi at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi Eric,
> thanks for the prompt answer.
>
> > Something you might want to do, but this is reinventing the wheel, is to
> > create your own grammar that defines binary layouts, and then use that as
> > input into a driver that reads the binary file. I have done both of these
> > and the latter is the better option.
>
> You're describing exact the situation I didn't want to face. ;-)
>
> The "ANTLR was not designed for binary files" point: This is why I think
> "if ANTLR is another tool for language recognition -- are binary files not
> also languages?". Or in other words: Wouldn't it be the least effort to add
> the functionality to ANTLR? Of course I don't know the ANTLR code at all, so
> I can't really comment on that but if it's designed well I could imagine
> that it would be possible to add at least some of my proposed features.
>
> BTW I'm wondering that I found so less posts on binary topics. And at least
> I'm not aware of another tool that's able to generate code for reading
> binary files -- seems to be an uncharted territory?
>
> Andi
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