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- How to port PCCTS 1.10 (and 1.20 hopefully) to Visual C++
-
- By
-
- John Hall <jhall@ivy.wpi.edu>
-
- Here is how to compile an ANTLR grammar in Visual C++. These steps
- describe how to have your ANTLR grammar parse the input file the user
- selects when they choose File Open in your Windows application. (Even
- if you aren't using Visual C++, the steps should be portable enough to
- other compilers.)
-
- * Make sure that ANTLR and DLG generate ANSI code (use the -ga
- switch).
-
- * Set the following compiler flags in Visual C++ (these are in the
- Memory Model category of the compiler options in the Project
- Options menu):
-
- FLAG MEANING
- ==== ==============================================================
- /AL Large memory model (multiple data segments; data items must be
- smaller than 64K).
-
- /Gtn Allocates all items whose size is greater than or equal to n
- in a new data segment. (I let n be 256: /Gt256.)
-
- /Gx- All references to data items are done with far addressing in
- case they are placed in a far segment.
-
- * Add the following member variable to the attributes section of your
- derived CDocument class (you will need to make sure you also
- include stdio.h):
-
- FILE *fp;
-
- * Add the following method to your derived CDocument class:
-
- BOOL CAppDoc::OnOpenDocument(const char* pszPathName)
- {
- // Call CDocument's OnOpenDocument to do housekeeping for us
- // DON'T add anything to the loading section of Serialize
- if (!CDocument::OnOpenDocument(pszPathName))
- return FALSE;
-
- // Open input file
- if ((fp = fopen(pszPathName, "r")) == NULL)
- return FALSE;
-
- // Parse input file
- ANTLR(start(), fp);
-
- // Close input file
- fclose(fp);
- return TRUE;
- }
-
- (Note: additional code may be necessary, depending on your parser.
- For example, if your parser uses PCCTS's symbol table library, you
- will need to insert calls to zzs_init and zzs_done.)
-
- * Compile the generated C files as C++ files. (I renamed the files
- to have a .CPP extension to fool Visual C++ into thinking they were
- C++ files. One might also use the /Tp switch, but that switch
- requires you separately include the filename.) [I used this step
- as an easy out for all the external linking errors I was getting
- that I couldn't fix by declaring things extern "C".]
-
- * Make sure the __STDC__ portion of the generated files gets
- compiled. (Either define __STDC__ yourself or else change all
- occurrences of __STDC__ to __cplusplus in the generated files. You
- can define __STDC__ in the Preprocessor category of the compiler
- options.)
-
- That last step is important for Visual C++, but may not apply to other
- compilers. For C++ compilers, whether __STDC__ is defined is
- implementation dependent (ARM, page 379). Apparently, Visual C++ does
- not to define it; it also does not support "old style" C function
- definitions (which is okay, according to page 404 of the ARM). Those
- two things together caused problems when trying to port the code.
- When it saw this:
-
- #ifdef __STDC__
- void
- globals(AST **_root)
- #else
- globals(_root)
- AST **_root;
- #endif
-
- it skipped the __STDC__ section and tried to process the "old style"
- function definition, where it choked.
-
- When you finally get your parser to compile and link without error,
- you may get General Protection Fault errors at run time. The problem
- I had was that a NULL was passed to a variable argument function
- without an explicit cast. The function grabbed a pointer (32-bits)
- off the stack using va_arg, but the NULL was passed silently as the
- integer 0 (16 bits), making the resulting pointer was invalid. (This
- was in PCCTS's sample C parser.)
-
- There is one other thing I might suggest to help you avoid a run-time
- error. Make sure you redefine the default error reporting function,
- zzsyn. To do this, put "#define USER_ZZSYN" in your #header section
- and put your own zzsyn somewhere. You can then pop up a MessageBox or
- print the error to some output window.
-
-