[antlr-interest] token stream resynching in custom exception handlers?

[Dennis Marsa]

How can one write a custom exception handler for a rule in ANTLR
that synchs the token stream to the follow set of the rule just
as the default exception handler does?

For example:

foo
    :    a
    |    b  { throw MyExceptionType(...); }
    |    c
    ;
    exception
    catch [MyExceptionType& exc] {
        // Do some custom work with exc

        // Attempt to resynch the token stream
        consume();
        consumeUntil(????);  // oops!
    }
    
This doesn't seem possible since in the grammar file, there seems
to be no way of referring to the rule's follow set for the call to
consumeUntil().  Or is there?

Is there another strategy that I'm not seeing?


Dennis Marsa

 

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