[antlr-interest] Compiler-exploding grammar

Andy Tripp antlr at jazillian.com
Wed Nov 28 14:45:47 PST 2007


Steve Bennett wrote:
> Oops, sorry about the massive message :( I didn't see that it 14000
> characters wide :(
>
> Anyway, looks like a bug in ANTLR - the java compiler is entitled to
> fall over with junk like that.
>
> Steve
>   
I don't follow. Are you saying that ANTLR generated a single line that 
was 14000 characters
wide, and javac choked on it? If so, that sounds like a javac bug to me.


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