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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Ben McCann
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 3:03 PM
To: Terence Parr
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [antlr-dev] Non-deterministic output



I downloaded the source distribution 
<http://antlr.org/download/antlr-3.2.tar.gz>  and made that edit, but Maven 
bombed out on me saying "The scm url cannot be null."

Thanks,
Ben



On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Terence Parr <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Ben,

Do me a favor and add this method

       @Override
       public Object[] toArray() {
               return elements.toArray();
       }

to OrdereredHashSet in org.antlr.misc.

I think that is a source of some nondeterminism. it helps in v4.  Let me know 
if this helps for you.

Ter

On Jun 9, 2010, at 10:34 AM, Ben McCann wrote:

> I'm not sure what you're referring to when you say timestamps.  The issue is 
> that the code comments keep changing.  Would it be possible to just use a 
> List instead of a Set?  That should solve the issue.
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
>
> $ diff {/tmp/tmpaX6PX1,/tmp/tmp2-04O_}/JsonTemplateParser.java
> 307c307
> <             // elements: value, DOC_COMMENT, startCommand
> ---
> >             // elements: startCommand, value, DOC_COMMENT
> 521c521
> <             // elements: DOC_COMMENT, entry, startCommand
> ---
> >             // elements: startCommand, entry, DOC_COMMENT
> 1031c1031
> <             // elements: DOC_COMMENT, entry
> ---
> >             // elements: entry, DOC_COMMENT
> 1161c1161
> <                     // elements: DOC_COMMENT, key, value
> ---
> >                     // elements: key, value, DOC_COMMENT
> 1365c1365
> <             // elements: value, DOC_COMMENT
> ---
> >             // elements: DOC_COMMENT, value
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Terence Parr <[email protected]> wrote:
> yeah, there are Sets in there. i wonder why (how?) java alters the order for 
> same computation across runs.  Come to think of it, i'm chasing something 
> similar in ANTLR v4 unit tests.  I thought it was static data somewhere but 
> could be some weird Set thing.
>
> damn java. grr.... not sure how easily i can help you here...
>
> Ter
>
> On Jun 9, 2010, at 10:15 AM, Ben McCann wrote:
>
>> We're using 3.2.  The only thing I've noticed changing between runs thus far 
>> is the code comments.  I should also mention the input is not changing at 
>> all.  I'm guessing it's something along the lines of using an Iterator from 
>> a Set instead of List so that there's no ordering guarantee.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ben
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Terence Parr <[email protected]> wrote:
>> wow. that's weird.  surely the grammar changes between runs?  Computers are 
>> usually good about determinism ;)
>> What version of antlr?
>> Ter
>> On Jun 8, 2010, at 9:52 PM, Ben McCann wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> It appears that ANTLR is generating varying output between runs.  This 
>>> causes problems for us when trying to diff to see if anything has changed.  
>>> Could someone file a bug for this?  I was not able to register for the JIRA.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ben McCann
>>> Software Engineer
>>> Google Inc.
>>>
>>>
>>> $diff ~/PathParser.java.1 ~/PathParser.java.2
>>> 560c560
>>> <                     // elements: Variable, expr
>>> ---
>>> >                     // elements: expr, Variable
>>>
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>>
>
>





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