[antlr-interest] can ANTLR tool itself use 1.5?

Dave Cramer davec at postgresintl.com
Tue Apr 3 19:40:22 PDT 2007


On 3-Apr-07, at 5:07 PM, Gavin Lambert wrote:

> At 00:51 4/04/2007, Dave Cramer wrote:
> >I definitely need the runtime 1.4 compatible. My target is an
> >embedded arm which doesn't run 1.5
>
> I'm surprised you're not using the C target for an embedded  
> system.  It ought to end up smaller :)
>
This is actually one of the attractive things about ANTLR. I have the  
flexibility to migrate there eventually, but at the moment much of  
the existing code is in java.

There's other reasons as well. Google's GWT runs on it as well as  
it's much easier to write code for network stuff.


Dave



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