[LLVMdev] ANTLR?

[Granville Barnett]

Chris, I'm not sure how good this is, but there does exist a C++ grammar for
ANTLR that is pretty actively maintained by Sun Microsystems -
http://hg.netbeans.org/main/file/tip/cnd.modelimpl/src/org/netbeans/modules/cnd/modelimpl/parser/cppparser.g

Granville


2009/7/11 Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com>

>
> On Jul 11, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Vikram S. Adve wrote:
>
> > We are looking for an open source C++ parser other than g++ if
> > possible.  Clang would be great but its C++ support is still some
> > way away and we need something that works or nearly works now.  Does
> > anyone have any experience with ANTLR for parsing C++ and for
> > extending their C++ parser?  Any other feedback on ANTLR in general
> > would be welcome too.  Thanks,
>
> You need a lot more than a traditional parser to parse c++, you have
> to do full template instantiation, partial template specialization etc
> just to be able to correctly parse it.  The "best answer" if you need
> something ASAP is to use Elsa.
>
> -Chris
>
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