[antlr-interest] ANTLR C: Question regarding the portability of generated lexer C code

[Lego Haryanto]

Jim, I'm not sure which time zone you're in, I'm assuming it's already after
midnight ... I do appreciate your taking time on this.
I'll try your suggestion in my z/OS env next week.  I'll update this thread
with the result.

Thanks,
-Lego

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Jim Idle <jimi at temporal-wave.com> wrote:

> No - it works, but you have to be careful to avoid ANTLR merging the
> ranges. See my later post.
>
> Jim
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> > bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of David-Sarah Hopwood
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> > Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] ANTLR C: Question regarding the
> > portability of generated lexer C code
> >
> > Jim Idle wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Change the ranges to:
> > >
> > > ID: ‘a’..’k’ | ‘l’..’t’ …
> >
> > I doubt that will work. The generated code sometimes uses character
> > literals, sometimes string literals, and sometimes Unicode code point
> > values. The code can't be compiled as EBCDIC because the code point
> > values are not EBCDIC codes.
> >
> > It would be easier to hack the C target so that it avoids character
> > literals, and uses only \x escapes in string literals.
> >
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