Perhaps you could send us your grammar too? You might find that you just need to comment out one or two rules until you get to reworking them.
Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:antlr-interest- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Terence Parr > Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 9:22 AM > To: Jean-Pierre LAMBERT > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] Parser generation takes hours > > very strange. antlr has a fail-safe so it cannot do that. what > command line options do you use? command line or ANTLWorks? > Ter > On Jan 5, 2010, at 6:52 AM, Jean-Pierre LAMBERT 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 > > > > List: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest > > Unsubscribe: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr- > interest/your-email-address > > > List: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest > Unsubscribe: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your- > email-address List: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest Unsubscribe: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your-email-address
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