[antlr-interest] Oh my, code too large

[Alexander Gängel]

Thank you these are good news.

But I have modified my Grammar so for now it works again, hopefully till 
3.1 comes out.

Alexander

Jim Idle schrieb:
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> IN 3.1 (coming soon now), you can take out parts of your grammar into 
> separate files, then use the import function to import say 
> ‘xyzexpressions’ into your root grammar. You can use a snapshot of 
> ANTLR 3.1 as it will be released quite soon. The imported grammars all 
> occupy their own class and so the issue goes away.
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> Jim
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> *From:* Alexander Gängel [mailto:alexander at gaengel.de]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 19, 2008 6:54 AM
> *To:* antlr-interest at antlr.org
> *Subject:* Re: [antlr-interest] Oh my, code too large
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> Is there any solution too this Problem?
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> I just run into it an now I'm not sure  how I can modify my Grammar to 
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> Alexander
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> Fred schrieb:
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> I have recently run into this (previously posted) problem and was
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> wondering what the status was?
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> There is a slight difference though, the error is found in a tree
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> grammar rather than a lexer.
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> "The problem is real.
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> Java effectively limits you to 65KBytes per method of byte-code.
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> The source of the limit is the definition of  the class files.
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> A class file includes, for each method, a table of  exception handlers,
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> and each of the entries in these tables includes the address
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> beginning and end of the try-block, stored as two 16-bit integers.
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> There is no way around this.
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> I hope that there are people out there  who can make suggestions as to
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> how to modify your lexer to generate
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> less code."
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> Peace
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> - John
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> On Dec 13, 2007, at 2:51 PM, Andreas Ravnestad wrote:
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>     On 12/13/07, Andreas Ravnestad <andreas.ravnestad at gmail.com> wrote:
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>         Sometimes ANTLR generates a lexer which will make javac choke on
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>             public int specialStateTransition(int s, IntStream input)throws
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> NoViableAltException {
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