"It’s too big! It doesn’t fit!" The above does not refer to any particular pornographic feature film, but rather, to a longstanding problem in JavaCC: if you write a very big, complex lexical grammar, the generated XXXTokenManager would fail to compile, with the compiler reporting the error: "Code too large". Well, this has now been …
The Dreaded “Code too large” Problem is a Thing of the Past Read More »
A few weeks ago, in a previous post I wrote: The problem, at the time of this writing, is that neither JavaCC21 nor legacy JavaCC have any concept of characters outside of plane 0, which are the ones that require 4 bytes of internal storage. Or another way of putting this is that the assumption …
JDK 16 is out! Though JDK 16 was released on 16 March, a week ago, I only became aware of that a few days later on March 20. Once I saw that news item, I figured I would just immediately add support for the new JDK 16 language features to JavaCC. It didn’t take me …
Now that the ability to generate fault-tolerant parsers is coming along so well, I have been thinking about what to do with the Java grammar included in CongoCC. I decided that the best thing to do was to do the incremental work to make it maximally correct. Ideally, it will serve as a reference implementation …
Moving Towards a Maximally Correct Reference Java Grammar Read More »