[antlr-interest] Parser generation takes hours

[Gokulakannan Somasundaram]

Hi Jean,
         I faced up with a similar issue, when i tried the migration of  a
LR parser. But it's definitely because of recursion stuffs. The way i
removed is sort of layman stuff, but thought of just informing you.
         Try to split the grammar into multiple sections(group of rules) and
try to add them one-by-one. You don't need to wait till the errors are
emitted. As soon as the parser generation takes more than 3-4 mins, just
stop the generation. The last section, which resulted in the increase most
probably contains the problematic code. Bear with me, if this approach looks
very awkward.

Thanks,
Gokul.

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Jean-Pierre LAMBERT <jp.raven at worldonline.fr
> wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm currently rewriting a LR parser to be used for ANTLR. As a result,
> ANTLR works literaly for hours before it outputs errors about my grammar.
>
> My work is not finished; I have removed all left-recursions but I still
> have to do left-factorisations. The problem being that since ANTLR works
> for hours before I get the errors, it isn't very practical for me to fix
> the grammar.
>
> Do you have any suggestions in this case? What could be done so that
> ANTLR would take only dozen of minutes? Is there something capital that
> I missed about ANTLR and LL grammars? How should be written ANTLR rules
> to avoid such a problem?
>
> Thanks in advance, any adice will be welcome.
>
> JP
>
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