[antlr-interest] Writing a new backend for v3

Terence Parr parrt at cs.usfca.edu
Thu May 10 11:30:01 PDT 2007


On May 10, 2007, at 11:25 AM, Luke A. Guest wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 19:13 +0100, Luke A. Guest wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just how hard is it to add new backend for an unsupported language  
>> in v3
>> of ANTLR? Where would somebody start?
>
> I can't believe that there is no information on how to start a new
> backend.

Yeah, I was hoping a target developer would keep some notes ;)

Basically, you have to copy the closest target templates and then  
alter them to conform to new target language.  Then you need to mimic  
the runtime library.  Getting some doc on that now.

Which language?

Ter


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