[antlr-interest] C runtime Memory Usage

[Bot Tiger]

I just found out that pANTLR3_BASE_TREE->getChild() returns the same node in
memory, but pANTLR3_BASE_TREE->getText() creates an entirely new
pANTLR3_STRING even when called from the same node.

Does anyone have any suggestions for making this function return the same
string? I thought it would've returned a single string from a lexer
structure.

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Bot Tiger <bottiger1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello, I am using the C runtime and experiencing heavy memory usage.
>
> I am interpreting an AST tree recursively.
>
> In each interpret call, I am checking the token text by using
> pANTLR3_BASE_TREE->getText()->chars.
> Am I suppose to manually free this when I am done with it?
>
> Also, I am recursively calling the children nodes with
> pANTLR3_BASE_TREE->getChild().
> Am I also supposed to free these as well? I was assuming that they returned
> only 1 copy of the node.
>
> Thank you.
>
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