[antlr-interest] ANTLR for a compiler

[Monty Zukowski]

On Nov 4, 2004, at 12:40 PM, Paul J. Lucas wrote:

>
> On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Bryan Ewbank wrote:
>
>> I've been working on building a compiler - not a translator, but a
>> code-generating compiler - in ANTLR, and I'm getting frustrated.  I am
>> seriously thinking of abandoning ANTLR in favor of Bison simply 
>> because of
>> the complexity of writing a tree parser
>
> 	You don't *have* to write a tree parser at all in ANTLR.  In
> 	the action routines of your (non-tree) parser, you simply do
> 	what you would have done using yacc/bison.
>
> 	Why do you want a tree parser?
>

Perhaps he wants more than one pass.

Monty



 
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