[antlr-interest] [C Target]: comment processing

[Hong-Thai NGUYEN]

Hi,
I'm using ANTLR for creating a compiler in linguistic processing  
(système-Q). The target language is ANSI C.
We'd keep all comments in code source and attach them to related  
items (like JavaDoc, i got example of sub-parser to process JavaDoc  
type comment from Ter, thanks).
But, we'd try to keep ANTLR grammar as clear as possible, we wouldn't  
pollute with "comment"  rule every where. So, we're using Channel to  
identify comment-liked Tokens, then calculate which items are related  
to which comments by line number. It's a good solution ? Even that,  
antlr3c don't give API (ex. getTokens(), ...) like in Java Target.

I've an other issue, if ANTLR support some kind of "global" rule like:
global_rule:
item comment;
where item = ALL matching rule, so that i can grant directly comment  
to every propriety items. How could we implement that in ANTLR ?

Thanks,

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