[antlr-interest] announcing new OpenJDK project: ANTLR grammar for javac

Andy Tripp antlr at jazillian.com
Fri Jul 18 08:33:56 PDT 2008


Hi Terence,
I've been meaning to ask you about this.

Is there going to be any "public access" to this code?
Is there anything I or others can do to help?
Is there a purpose, other than to make things cleaner and easier
to maintain and enhance?
What does Sun think of this? Are they encouraging it?
Do you know why they hand-wrote their parser rather than using a tool?
Maybe you could apply (next year) to get some cash from Sun for this work:
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-12/sunflash.20071205.1.xml

Andy

Terence Parr wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> http://openjdk.java.net/projects/compiler-grammar/
> 
> "The goal of this Project is to develop an experimental version of the 
> javac compiler based upon a grammar written in ANTLR."
> 
> My graduate student Yang Jiang is currently building a version of javac 
> the uses and ANTLR Java grammar instead of the handbuilt parser in there 
> now. He has made amazing progress.
> 
> Terence
> 



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