[antlr-interest] Porting ANTLR-Java-AST-Template based solution to ANTLR-C based solution

[Kecman, Dejan]

Hi,

I am new to ANTLR, so please be gentle and patient with me... I read book, I browsed through available examples, and after a while, I successfully created my grammar and Java version of parser/lexer that produces AST, and AST walker that uses templates for generating structured text.  It was not that difficult at all even for beginner in this area. But now, I want to port this to C/C++ world, and since templates are not supported in ANTLR-C runtime, I am stacked here.  So, my question is the following - what is the best approach to porting ANTLR-Java-AST-Template based solution to ANTLR-C based solution?  I was browsing through many examples, but most of them use "printf" for any output, and I need ANTLR based object to be part of bigger schema and used directly within my application code. In my templates I used mainly two forms:

templateOne( xxx ) ::=<<
Some text
<xxx>
Yet another text
>>

templateTwo( yyy ) ::=<<
Some text
<yyy:{yyy | More text <yyy>}>
Yet more text
>>

So, my question is - what is the best way to make this working in ANTLR-C based world?  I would appreciate any pointers and would really appreciate some example.

Thank you in advance and thanks for great tool


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