[antlr-interest] Antlr v4 - C++ target

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 1/24/12 6:12 AM, "Gokulakannan Somasundaram" <gokul007 at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Gokulakannan, 

> Hi All,
>          I have decided to spend some time to come up with a C++ Target for
> ANTLR 3.4, as i need it desperately for my project. I have started working
> on it and i am going to come with a initial version within a week or two.
> My ideas

> a) The details of the parser related functionality will be stolen from C
> Target

> b) It is not going to have function pointers/virtual functions. Its going
> to be all templates



> c) It is going to be a header-only library.

ok

> d) Its going to have Exception handling

Sense?

> e) I am going to replace structures like string, vector, stack, hash map,
> list etc with data structures in C++

Very against !!

Why ??

Just use C-target  things...

OR at least NOT use std::strings ...

C target uses really minimal techniques with strings ...
std::string will bring back copies ...


> f) I am trying to make it as much type-safe as possible
> 
> But Since i don't have much experience with building Trees, i am not going
> to touch the .stg files of the Tree Parser. I need some-one to take it up,
> once i put out the first version.
> 
> Any suggestions?

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Ruslan Zasukhin
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