[antlr-interest] Why these lex rules make the generated .c source file grow to over 40M size?

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I found using the same lex rule,the size of the generated .Java file is much
smaller than the generated .C file.For example, the size of
the generated  .Java file is 124K, while the size of .c file could reach to
14M!!!
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