[antlr-interest] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
Diehl, Matthew J
matthew.j.diehl at intel.com
Tue Jun 5 11:57:39 PDT 2007
Lol, yeah, I tried your code with a limit of 1490M in ANTLRWorks 1.0.2,
and it got up to 1450M and just froze. It steadily climbed to 1450MB,
too. There's some kind've loop in there.
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[mailto:antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of Terence Parr
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Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap
space
On Jun 5, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
> I'm trying to develop a parser for wiki markup and part of that
> requires the recognition of URI tokens according to RFC 3986
> (<http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt>). The internal structure of
> the URI isn't of any interest to me, I just want to get a token for
> each URI, so I'm doing all this in the lexer.
>
> For testing purposes, I'm doing this first in a separate grammar,
> which you can see here:
>
> <http://pastie.textmate.org/68006>
>
> Basically this is the grammar from the RFC, but converted from the
> ABNF used in that document (the ABNF is itself described in <http://
> www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2234.txt>) to use ANTLR's EBNF notation, and
> then with some minor tweaks to eliminate ANTLRWorks warnings about
> ambiguity or analysis problems. As far as I can tell, however, the
> grammar matches the description in the RFC.
>
> When I try to pipe this through ANTLR (v3 final) I get this:
>
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap
> space
>
> I tried cranking up the heap size, 256 MB, 512 MB, 768 MB and so on...
>
> java -Xms32m -Xmx2048m org.antlr.Tool RFC3986.g
>
> But to no avail... I got up to almost a gig and a half before swap
> start thrashing itself to death and I had to kill the ANTLR
> process. The funny thing is the grammar check works fine in
> ANTLRWorks (no warnings printed to the console), it has no problems
> showing me syntax diagrams, producing rule dependency graphs, or
> handling input that I pass in via the interpreter.
That is really really strange. Are you sure that the commandline
version is v3.0?
Ter
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