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1****************************************************************************
2As of ANTLR 3.5.2, March 25 2014, we are no longer updating this file. Instead,
3we are using the github release mechanism. For example, here is
43.5.2 release notes:
5
6https://github.com/antlr/antlr3/releases/tag/3.5.2
7****************************************************************************
8
9ANTLR 3.5 Release
10January 4, 2012
11
12Terence Parr, parrt at cs usfca edu
13ANTLR project lead and supreme dictator for life
14University of San Francisco
15
16CHANGES
17
18January 4 2012 -- release 3.5
19
20January 3, 2012
21
22* Improve error reporting and recovery for STRAY_BRACKET, fixes antlr/antlr3#42
23* Do not write output files if errors were reported, fixes antlr/antlr3#61
24* Fix AST operator on labeled set of terminals e.g. x=(A|B)^
25* Fix labeled set of terminals with rewrite e.g. x=(A|B) -> $x
26
27December 1, 2012
28
29* Added error msg for .. in parser
30
31September 17, 2012
32
33* Add Gokulakannan Somasundaram's C++ target based upon C target.
34  Use language=Cpp in options. It's a header-only library, runtime/Cpp/include,
35  so installation is not required.
36
37September 16, 2012
38
39* Python 3.3 target added by Benjamin Wolf based upon Python 2 target
40  https://github.com/antlr/antlr3/pull/23
41
42September 15, 2012
43
44* LookaheadStream bug fixes;
45  https://github.com/antlr/antlr3/pull/21
46
47* Pulled "Fix Python handling of syntactic predicates"
48  https://github.com/antlr/antlr3/pull/33
49
50July 15, 2012
51
52* GUnit improvements
53  https://github.com/antlr/antlr3/pull/27
54
55May 2012:
56
57* ANTLR3 update of ObjC runtime to go with latest ST4-ObjC
58  https://github.com/antlr/antlr3/pull/17
59
60August 9, 2012
61
62* Provide Lexer get end of file method so people can override it.
63
64November 25, 2011
65
66* stderr not test correctly in gunit examineExecResult
67
68October 27, 2011
69
70* Dieter Habelitz reported bug in java code gen with synpreds. labels were
71  being carried from grammar into synpreds but weren't typed properly (they
72  were "void x=null;" for x=ruleref labels)
73
74October 25, 2011
75
76* (Sam) Rule.setOption didn't do memoize option right.
77* (Sam) Fix labels in synpreds
78* (Sam) Fix input index for NoViableAltException during inline prediction
79* (Sam) Fix label aliasing errors in cases like (x=y|x=z)
80
81August 10, 2011
82
83* (Sam) fix stack overflow in semantic context analysis
84
85July 30, 2011
86
87* added range check to BaseTree.insertChild()
88
89July 18, 2011 -- release 3.4
90
91* Added tree method insertChild(int i, Object t).
92
93July 14, 2011
94
95* Added BaesTree.freshenParentAndChildIndexesDeeply() to recursively
96  walk tree and set ptrs.
97
98July 6, 2011
99
100* reset() for token stream didn't skip initial off-channel tokens.
101
102July 5, 2011
103
104* Sam fixes rare infinite loop upon error in nextToken().
105* rewrites weren't pulled from syntactic predicates.
106
107June 29, 2011
108
109* Sam noticed CommonToken.getText() cached substring pulled from input, which
110  defeated purpose of pointing into input char array.  Altered to not cache.
111  Should reduce memory footprint.
112
113June 24, 2011
114
115* empty alts with actions didn't have EPSILON dummy alt node.
116
117June 19, 2011
118
119* Udo noticed that Parser.getMissingSymbol() didn't set invented token's input
120
121June 8, 2011
122
123* Added inContext(String context) back into TreeParser.
124
125April 21, 2011
126
127* Updated for ST v4.0.2 (setting iterateAcrossValues = true as instance var)
128* Needed throws condition for delegatedRules.
129
130April 20, 2011 (Sam Harwell)
131
132* Implement the 'throwsSpec' feature of parser rules for the Java target
133* Improve algorithm for SemanticContext Boolean predicate reduction
134
135April 13, 2011
136
137* Unmangled region names in STViz hiearchy tree display.
138* Removed conversion timeout thing again
139
140April 11, 2011
141
142* Added option -Xconversiontimeout back in.  Turns out we hit NFA conversion
143  time landmine occasionally with huge grammars; fails over to backtracking
144  (if turned on) if it can't make DFA.
145
146March 29 - April 10, 2011
147
148* Uses ST v4 now!!!  Massive change.  Only updated Java target so far.
149  Ripped out ST v3 usage to remove indirect dependency on ANTLR v2.
150
151March 28, 2011
152
153* Sam Harwell ported all v2 grammars to v3!
154
155March 3, 2011
156
157* left-recursion pattern off until all targets catch up
158
159* ANTLRCore.sti no longer used; removed from all targets.
160
161* Adding type, text terminal options
162
163* Replaced hetero arg with terminalOptions arg in all templates that reference hetero
164  (this is the class name / node type used for TOKEN<NODETYPE> references
165  in grammar).  Widespread but trivial changes to all targets.  hetero is
166  now terminalOptions.node.  Can also get terminalOptions.type and
167  terminalOptions.text from dictionary of options.
168
169* Fixed mispelling of license in BSD license headers
170
171March 3, 2011
172
173* Add tree, getTree() to ParserRuleReturnScope to do away with specific ones like:
174    public static class rewrite_template_args_return extends ParserRuleReturnScope {
175        CommonTree tree;
176        public Object getTree() { return tree; }
177    };
178  Removed these special classes if it's just AST; keep if they have defined "returns"
179  values
180
181February 26, 2011
182
183* All finally {} have comment now to suppress warning.
184
185* removed ; from {;} blank method
186
187* Added @SuppressWarnings({"all"}) to front of each
188  generated class.
189
190* -print wasn't always showing ^ and ! in grammar
191
192* Added java-left-recur/Java.g example.
193
194* left-recursion pattern detection handles backtracking mode now
195
196February 25, 2011
197
198* -Xmaxinlinedfastates went to 60 from 10 for forcing prediction in left-
199  recursive expression rules to stay in rule; preds use a parameter.
200
201* trees know where they came from now start..stop tokens; todo: use for better err handling.
202
203* Got immediate left-recursion working for rules. Added TestLeftRecursion.java
204
205February 21, 2011
206
207* Fixed http://www.antlr.org/jira/browse/ANTLR-437 thanks to Vladislav Kuzkokov.
208  added unit test.
209
210February 17, 2011
211
212* Add -language L option to override language=L option in grammar.  Same
213  grammar can yield multiple parsers in different languages now.
214
215February 10, 2011
216
217* Added method to generated Java code to return the array of delegates; e.g.,
218    import Sub1, Sub2;
219  yields:
220
221    public Parser[] getDelegates() {
222        return new Parser[] {gSub1, gSub2};
223    }
224
225January 25, 2011
226
227* Improve error messages for no viable alt parse exceptions
228
229January 20, 2011
230
231* TokenRewriteStream had dead code; also updated insertBefore followed by
232  replace or delete.  If input is abc and I did insertBefore(2,"y"), where
233  'c' is index 2, then did delete of 2 previously defined functionality
234  was to ignore the insert. that's weird; fixed to keep insert.  Also
235  Delete special case of replace (text==null):
236  	  D.i-j.u D.x-y.v	| boundaries overlap => combine to max(min)..max(right)
237
238December 12, 2010
239
240* Send couldBacktrack now to enterDecision in debug protocol
241
242December 4, 2010
243
244* TreeWizard ctor needed a default tree adapator.
245
246November 29, 2010 -- ANTLR v3.3
247
248November 23, 2010
249
250* CodeGenerator.loadLanguageTarget is now static and available to load
251  targets so we can ask them questions during analysis.
252
253* Fixed and added unit test
254    http://www.antlr.org/jira/browse/ANTLR-370
255    http://www.antlr.org/jira/browse/ANTLR-375
256
257November 23, 2010
258
259* Added source name to syntax error msgs
260
261October 20, 2010
262
263Added boolean couldBacktrack to enterDecision in dbg interface. Breaks AW
264interface and other tools! [BREAKS BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY]
265
266October 17, 2010
267
268* Missing -trace in help msg
269
270November 22, 2010
271
272* Added GrammarAST: public int getCharPositionInLine() { return getColumn()-1; }
273  and Grammar.getHasDelegates() for C# guys
274
275October 16, 2010
276
277* Doesn't write profile data to file anymore; emits decision data to stderr
278
279October 14, 2010
280
281* Make OrderedHashSet have deterministic iteration
282
283July 20, 2010
284
285* greedy=true option shuts off nondeterminism warning.
286
287* code gen for AST and -profile didn't compile. had useless line:
288
289             proxy.setTreeAdaptor(adap);
290
291
292July 17, 2010
293
294* Removed conversion timeout failsafe; no longer needed.
295
296* Stats updated to be correct for -report.
297
298June 10, 2010
299
300* added toArray in OrderedHashSet to make addAll calls get same order for DFA edges and possibly code gen in some areas.
301
302June 5, 2010
303
304* Added -Xsavelexer
305
306May 24, 2010
307
308* lexerStringRef was missing elementIndex attribute. i='import' didn't work
309  in lexer.  Altered all target stg files.  Set in codegen.g
310
311* output=AST, rewrite=true for tree rewriters broken. nextNode for subtree
312  streams didn't dup node, it gave whole tree back.
313
314March 17, 2010
315
316* Added MachineProbe class to make it easier to highlight ambig paths in
317  grammar.  More accurate than DecisionProbe; retrofitted from v4.
318
319February 20, 2010
320
321* added range to TokenStream and implementors:
322    /** How far ahead has the stream been asked to look?  The return
323     *  value is a valid index from 0..n-1.
324     */
325    int range();
326
327* added new method to get subset of tokens to buffered token streams:
328	public List get(int start, int stop);
329
330February 15, 2010
331
332* Refs to other tokens in a lexer rule didn't get its line/charpos right.
333  altered Java.stg.
334
335January 31, 2010
336
337* Creating token from another token didn't copy input stream in CommonToken.
338  makes sense to copy too; i don't think anybody relies on it being null after
339  a copy. We might want to know where token came from.
340
341January 26, 2009
342
343* TreeParser.getMissingSymbol() use CommonTree instead of using
344  adaptor.create()
345
346December 8, 2009
347
348* Instead of sharing Token.EOF_TOKEN, I'm now creating EOF tokens so I can set the char position for better error messages.
349
350December 5, 2009
351
352* Fixed bug in TreeVisitor when rewrites altered number of children. Thanks to Chris DiGiano.
353
354* added new buffered on-demand streams: BufferedTokenStream. Renamed CommonTokenStream to LegacyCommonTokenStream and made new one as subclass of BufferedTokenStream.
355
356November 3, 2009
357
358* Added org.antlr.runtime.UnbufferedTokenStream. Was trivial and works!
359
360November 1, 2009
361
362* Couldn't properly reuse parser state; ctor reset the state; fixed.
363	Parser(TokenStream input, RecognizerSharedState state)
364
365* LookaheadStream<T> used some hardcoded Object return types for LT, etc...
366  uses T now.
367
368September 23, 2009 -- ANTLR v3.2
369
370September 21, 2009 [Jim Idle]
371
372* Added new options for tool invocation to control the points at which the code
373  generator tells the target code to use its equivalent of switch() instead of
374  inline ifs.
375      -Xmaxswitchcaselabels m don't generate switch() statements for dfas
376                              bigger  than m [300]
377      -Xminswitchalts m       don't generate switch() statements for dfas smaller
378                              than m [3]
379* Upgraded -X help output to include new optins and provide the default
380  settings, as well as provide units for those settings that need them.
381
382* Change the C Target to overide the deafults for the new settings to
383  generate the most optimizable C code from the modern C compiler point of
384  view. This is essentially to always use swtich statements unless there
385  is absolutely no other option. C defaults are to use 1 for minimum and
386  3000 for maximum number of alts that trigger switch(). This results in
387  object code that is 30% smaller and up to 20% faster.
388
389April 23, 2009
390
391* Added reset to TreeNodeStream interface.
392
393April 22, 2009
394
395* Fixed ANTLR-374.  Was caused by moved of grammars. %foo() stuff didn't work
396
397April 9, 2009
398
399* .g and .g3 file extensions work again.
400* introduced bug in 3.1.3: gives exception not error msg upon
401  missing .g file
402
403March 26, 2009
404
405* Made ctor in TreeRewriter and TreeFilter call this not super.
406
407March 21, 2009
408
409* Added ctor to RecognizerSharedState to allow cloning it.
410
411March 17, 2009 -- ANTLR v3.1.3
412
413* improved ANTLRv3.g to handle <...> element options
414
415March 15, 2009
416
417* Fixed ANTLR-389. Strip didn't ignore options in subrules; also seemed
418  to demand stdin.
419
420March 15, 2009
421
422* ANTLR always sorts incoming grammar list by dependency.  For example,
423  If W.g depends on tokens from P.g then P.g is done first even if
424  W.g mentioned first on command line.  It does not ignore any files you
425  specify the commandline.  If you do *.g and that includes some
426  imported grammars, it will run antlr on them.
427
428* -make option prevents ANTLR from running on P.g if P older than
429  generated files.
430
431* Added org.antlr.tool.GrammarSpelunker to build a faster dependency
432  checker (what grammars depend on etc...).  Totally independent of any
433  ANTLR code; easy to pull into other tools.
434
435* Added org.antlr.misc.Graph, a general graph with nodes
436  containing an Object payload. It knows how to do a topological sort
437  on the nodes.
438
439March 10, 2009
440
441* Added associativity token option to support upcoming special expression
442  parsing. Added rule option strategy=precedence also
443
444March 1, 2009
445
446* Changed ANTLRWorks debug port from 49153 to 49100.  Apparently we change the port in
447  ANTLRWorks to 49100 in 1.2 but forgot to do so in the ANTLR targets.
448
449START CHANGES FOR TREE FILTER MODE (pulled from dev branch)
450
451This feature will be announced in 3.2, but I am integrating from my development branch now into the mainline so target developers have a chance to implement. We might release 3.1.3 bug fix release before 3.2.
452
453* CommonTreeNodeStream -> BufferedTreeNodeStream.  Now,
454  CommonTreeNodeStream is completely unbuffered unless you are
455  backtracking.  No longer making a list of all nodes before tree parsing.
456
457* Added tree grammar filter=true mode.
458
459  Altered templates:
460	Java.stg: added filterMode to genericParser and treeParser.
461	This required a change to ANTLRCore.sti
462	Defined a default parameter in treeParser to set the superclass
463	to TreeFilter for tree grammar with filter=true. It sets
464	superclass to TreeRewriter if filter=true and output=AST.
465  Other them that, I only had to change ANTLR itself a little bit.
466  Made filter mode valid for tree grammars and have it automatically set
467  the necessary elements: @synpredgate, backtrack=true, rewrite=true
468  (if output=AST).  Added error message for detecting conflicting
469  options.
470
471* Added misc.FastQueue and TestFastQueue:
472  A queue that can dequeue and get(i) in O(1) and grow arbitrarily large.
473  A linked list is fast at dequeue but slow at get(i).  An array is
474  the reverse.  This is O(1) for both operations.
475
476* Added tree.TreeIterator, a generator that walks a doubly linked tree.
477  The nodes must know what index they are. It's an Iterator but
478  remove() is not supported. Returns navigation nodes always:
479  UP, DOWN, EOF.
480
481* Added misc.LookaheadStream: A lookahead queue that knows how
482  to mark/release locations in the buffer for backtracking purposes.
483  I hope to use for both tree nodes and tokens.  Just implement
484  nextElement() to say how to get next node or token.
485
486END CHANGES FOR TREE FILTER MODE
487
488February 23, 2009 -- ANTLR v3.1.2
489
490February 18, 2009
491
492* Added org.antlr.tool.Strip (reads from file arg or stdin, emits to stdout)
493  to strip actions from a grammar.
494
495February 4, 2009
496
497* Added CommonTree.setUnknownTokenBoundaries().  Sometimes we build trees
498  in a grammar and some of the token boundaries are not set properly.
499  This only matters if you want to print out the original text associated
500  with a subtree.  Check this out rule:
501
502	postfixExpression
503	    :   primary ('.'^ ID)*
504	    ;
505
506  For a.b.c, we get a '.' that does not have the token boundaries set.
507  ANTLR only sets token boundaries for subtrees returned from a rule.
508  SO, the overall '.' operator has the token boundaries set from 'a'
509  to 'c' tokens, but the lower '.' subtree does not get the boundaries
510  set (they are -1,-1).  Calling setUnknownTokenBoundaries() on
511  the returned tree sets the boundaries appropriately according to the
512  children's token boundaries.
513
514January 22, 2009
515
516* fixed to be listeners.add(listener); in addListener() of DebugEventHub.java
517
518January 20, 2009
519
520* Removed runtime method: mismatch in BaseRecognizer and TreeParser.  Seems
521  to be unused.  Had to override method recoverFromMismatchedToken() in
522  TreeParser to get rid of single token insertion and deletion for
523  tree parsing because it makes no sense with all of the up-and-down nodes.
524
525* Changed JIRA port number from 8888 to no port spec (aka port 80) and all
526  refs to it in this file.
527
528* Changed BaseTree to Tree typecase in getChild and toStringTree() and
529  deleteChild() to make more generic.
530
531December 16, 2008
532
533* Added -verbose cmd-line option and turned off standard header
534  and list of read files.  Silent now without -verbose.
535
536November 24, 2008
537
538* null-ptr protected getParent and a few others.
539
540* Added new ctor to CommonTreeNodeStream for walking subtrees.  Avoids
541  having to make new serialized stream as it can reuse overall node stream
542  buffer.
543
544November 20, 2008
545
546* Updated BaseTest to isolate tests better.
547
548November 17, 2008
549
550* BaseTreeAdaptor.getType() was hosed; always gave 0.  Thanks to Sam Harwell.
551
552November 8, 2008
553
554* Added methods to BaseRecognizer:
555  public void setBacktrackingLevel(int n) { state.backtracking = n; }
556  /** Return whether or not a backtracking attempt failed. */
557  public boolean failed() { return state.failed; }
558
559November 5, 2008
560
561* Tweaked traceIn/Out to say "fail/succeeded"
562
563* Bug in code gen for tree grammar wildcard list label x+=.
564
565* Use of backtrack=true anywhere in grammar causes backtracking sensitive
566  code to be generated.  Actions are gated etc...  Previously, that only
567  happened when a syntactic predicate appeared in a DFA.  But, we need
568  to gate actions when backtracking option is set even if no decision
569  is generated to support filtering of trees.
570
571October 25, 2008
572
573* Fixed debug event socket protocol to allow spaces in filenames.
574
575* Added TreeVisitor and TreeVisitorAction to org.antlr.runtime.tree.
576
577October 22, 2008
578
579* Added inContext() to TreeParser.  Very useful for predicating
580  tree grammar productions according to context (their parent list).
581  Added new TestTreeContext unit tests (15).
582
583    /** Check if current node in input has a context.  Context means sequence
584     *  of nodes towards root of tree.  For example, you might say context
585     *  is "MULT" which means my parent must be MULT.  "CLASS VARDEF" says
586     *  current node must be child of a VARDEF and whose parent is a CLASS node.
587     *  You can use "..." to mean zero-or-more nodes.  "METHOD ... VARDEF"
588     *  means my parent is VARDEF and somewhere above that is a METHOD node.
589     *  The first node in the context is not necessarily the root.  The context
590     *  matcher stops matching and returns true when it runs out of context.
591     *  There is no way to force the first node to be the root.
592     */
593    public boolean inContext(String context) {...}
594
595* Added 3 methods to Tree interface [BREAKS BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY]
596
597    /** Is there is a node above with token type ttype? */
598    public boolean hasAncestor(int ttype);
599
600    /** Walk upwards and get first ancestor with this token type. */
601    public Tree getAncestor(int ttype);
602
603    /** Return a list of all ancestors of this node.  The first node of
604     *  list is the root and the last is the parent of this node.
605     */
606    public List getAncestors();
607
608October 21, 2008
609
610* Updated unit tests to be correct for \uFFFE->\uFFFF change
611
612* Made . in tree grammar look like ^(. .*) to analysis, though ^(. foo)
613  is illegal (can't have . at root). Wildcard is subtree or node.
614  Fixed bugs:
615    http://www.antlr.org/browse/ANTLR-248
616    http://www.antlr.org/browse/ANTLR-344
617
618October 1, 2008 -- ANTLR v3.1.1
619
620September 8, 2008
621
622* Labels on tokens, rules carry into synpreds now so semantic predicates work.
623  This didn't work since labels were stripped in the synpred and they weren't
624  defined in the generated method.
625
626  a : x=A z=a {$x.text.equals($z.text)}? A
627    | y=A a A A
628    ;
629
630September 3, 2008
631
632* Made a REV static variable in Tool so that we can change the rev for
633  daily builds.
634
635* Made \uFFFF a valid character. Token types are 32-bit clean using -1
636  not 0x0000FFFF as -1 so it should be okay.  Label.java:
637    public static final int MIN_CHAR_VALUE = '\u0000';
638    public static final int MAX_CHAR_VALUE = '\uFFFF';
639
640August 30, 2008
641
642* Changed messages in en.stg so that TOKEN_NONDETERMINISM correctly
643  indicates when actions hid semantic predicates.
644
645August 15, 2008
646
647* Tweaked build properties and build.xml
648
649August 13, 2008
650
651* Fixed ANTLR-314; 3.1 introduced a problem with list labels +=
652
653August 12, 2008 -- ANTLR v3.1
654
655* Added JavaScript target
656
657August 7, 2008
658
659* an NFA target of EOF predicate transition in DFA cause an exception in
660  getPredicatesPerNonDeterministicAlt().
661
662* Kay Roepke found a nasty bug when debugging AST-constructing
663  composite recognizers.  If the input state was null to the constructor,
664  super class constructor created a new parser state object.
665  Later, though we passed the argument state not this.state
666  to the delegate constructors, forcing them to share a different
667  state objects!  Changed state to this.state in Dbg.stg constructors.
668
669* Ack. messed up debug/AST.  Have to set proxy's tree adaptor; it's
670  a circular ref.  Just an ASTDbg.stg change.
671
672August 4, 2008
673
674* superClass works now for lexers
675
676* Made Grammar.defineNamedAction propogate header actions down to all
677  delegates if root grammar; regardless of lexer/parser scope.
678
679* Rejiggered AST templates to propogate changes to tree adaptor
680  for delegate grammars. Fixes ANTLR-302
681
682August 4, 2008
683
684* FOLLOW set computations altered constant FOLLOW bit sets.
685
686* Added (...) are all predicate evaluations.
687
688* Extra init code for tree parser nonrewrite mode removed.
689
690* Added empty child list check in becomeRoot
691
692August 3, 2008
693
694* Was using RuleReturnScope not Rulename_return for list labels in tree
695  parser.
696
697* Didn't set _last in tree parser for rule ref track stuff (rewrite=true)
698
699August 2, 2008
700
701* Benjamin found another rewrite engine bug.
702
703July 30, 2008
704
705* CommonTreeNodeStream / CommonTokenStream did not reset properly.
706
707July 29, 2008
708
709* Fixed another bug in TokenRewriteStream; didn't like inserts after end.
710
711July 28, 2008
712
713* Fixed bug in TokenRewriteStream.toString(start,stop); it ignored
714  parameters. ;)
715
716July 17, 2008
717
718* allow qualified type names in hetero <...> options like T<a.b.c.Node>
719
720July 5, 2008
721
722* treeLevel not set for setBlock alts; added unit test
723
724July 3, 2008
725
726* Fixed ANTLR-267. parse tree added nodes during backtracking and
727  cyclic DFAs.  tracks hidden tokens too now. Added toInputString() to
728  get text back including hidden tokens.  Shows <epsilon> for rules
729  that match nothing.
730
731June 26, 2008
732
733* Added gParent ptr that points to immediate parent grammar. E.g.,
734    // delegators
735    public MParser gM;
736    public M_S gS;
737    public M_S gParent = gS; // NEW
738
739* Grammar imports didn't set all the delegate pointers...lots of imported
740  grammars would cause a null ptr exception.  Fixes ANTLR-292.
741
742June 25, 2008
743
744* List labels in tree construction didn't always track the tree; sometimes
745  had a rule result structure.
746
747June 4, 2008
748
749* Improved unit testing so that each test suite executes and builds grammars
750  in a separate temporary directory. This means they can execute concurrently.
751  Also seem to be a problem with my class path during execution. Moved
752  tmpdir for ahead of standard CLASSPATH.
753
754* By virtue of an improvement to StringTemplate, output newlines
755  in generated files should be normalized to whatever your host uses.
756
757June 3, 2008
758
759* Restrict legality of grammar options; for example you cannot use output option
760  in lexer anymore.
761
762June 2, 2008
763
764* Throw illegal arg exception upon invalid TokenRewriteStream ops. Rewrote
765  core of engine.  Slightly different operation.  Added many more unit tests.
766
7673.1b1 - May 20, 2008
768
769May 11, 2008
770
771* rewrite=true, output=AST for tree grammar was not working.  Altered trees were not
772  propagated back up the rule reference chain.  Required a number of mods to
773  ASTTreeParser.stg.  Added unit tests.
774
775May 10, 2008
776
777* [BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE if you override match()]
778  I had turned off single token insertion and deletion because I could not figure
779  out how to work with trees and actions. Figure that out and so I turned it back on.
780  match() returns Object matched now (parser, tree parser) so we can set labels
781  on token refs properly after single token ins/del error recovery.  Allows actions
782  and tree construction to proceed normally even though we recover in the middle of
783  an alternative.  Added methods for conjuring up missing symbols: getMissingSymbol().
784
785* refactored BaseRecognizer error handling routines
786
787* Single token error recovery was not properly taking into consideration EOF.
788
789* ANTLR no longer tries to recover in tree parsers inline using single node deletion or insertion; throw exception.  Trees should be well formed as they are not created by users.
790
791* Added empty constructors to the exception classes that did not have them so that ANTLRWorks can create the exceptions.
792
793* Made debug tree adaptor deal with tokens conjured up during error recovery.
794
795* Removed extra location() debug element that was emitted.
796
797May 8, 2008
798
799* ANTLR didn't update line/col to DFA map for AW.
800
801May 6-7, 2008
802
803* Insufficiently covered (with semantic predicates) alt warnings are now emitted before
804  nondeterminisms so it's clear the nondeterminism is a result of insufficient preds.
805
806* Improved insufficiently covered alt warnings from:
807    warning(203): T.g:2:3: The following alternatives are insufficiently covered with predicates: 1
808  to:
809    warning(203): T.g:2:3: Input B is insufficiently covered with predicates at loca
810tions: alt 1: line 3:15, alt 2: line 2:9
811
812* Improved nondeterminism warning to have:
813  Semantic predicates were present but were hidden by actions.
814parser grammar U;
815a : (A B)? ;
816b : X a {p1}? A B | Y a {a1} {p2}? A B | Z a ;
817
818To create the prediction DFA for the optional sub rule in 'a', ANTLR must find all references to 'a' to determine what can follow. A B can follow 'a' in the first two alts rule 'b'.   To resolve the conflict between matching A B immediately in the sub rule and exiting rule 'a' to match it in 'b', ANTLR looks for predicates. In this case, there are two predicates that indicate the semantic context in which the surrounding alternatives are valid. The problem is that one of the predicates is hidden by an action. It took me 1.5 days, but I've finally have gotten ANTLR to properly track the insufficiently covered alternatives. Further, I have gotten it to tell you precisely where the uncovered predicates are even if they are simply hidden by actions. I have also updated all of the nondeterminism warnings so that it tells you if there was a predicate but one hidden by an action (this could be a separate condition from insufficiently covered predicates). here are your messages from ANTLR:
819
820ANTLR Parser Generator  Version 3.1b1 (??)  1989-2007
821warning(203): U.g:2:5: Input such as "A B" is insufficiently covered with predicates at locations: alt 2: line 3:38 at B
822Semantic predicates were present but were hidden by actions.
823warning(200): U.g:2:5: Decision can match input such as "A B" using multiple alternatives: 1, 2
824As a result, alternative(s) 2 were disabled for that input
825Semantic predicates were present but were hidden by actions.
826
827* Fixed issue where
828r41
829   : (INT -> INT) ( ('+' i=INT) -> ^($i $r41) )* ';'
830   ;
831still warned about $r41 being ambig.
832
833* actions are now added to the NFA.
834
835* Fixed ANTLR-222.  ANTLR now ignores preds after actions.
836
837May 5, 2008
838
839* Fixed ANTLR-235 by backing out a change from 12-31-07.
840
841* Fixed ANTLR-249; I include semantic context again in closure busy signal.
842
843May 3, 2008
844
845* Fixed ANTLR-208.  Looks in library or in -o output path.  antlr -o foo T.g U.g where U needs T.tokens won't work unless we look in foo too.  fixed.
846
847* Refactored assign.types.g to move methods to a class called AssignTokenTypesBehavior.
848
849* Fixed ANTLR-207.  Lexers importing vocabs didn't see ';'=4 type aliases in .tokens.
850
851* Fixed ANTLR-228.  Couldn't use wildcard in alts with AST rewrites.
852
853May 2, 2008
854
855* Fixed ANTLR-230; can use \' now in action.
856
857* Scope attributes no longer have a stack depth check on front.  If you ref $r::a when r has not invoked you, then you get an exception not a default value.  Back to the way 3.0.1 worked.
858
859* $channel was a global variable in 3.0.1 unlike $type which did not affect an invoking lexer rule.  Now it's local too.  Only $type and $channel are ever set with regularity.  Setting those should not affect an invoking lexer rule as in the following should work:
860
861  X : ID WS? '=' ID ;  // result is X on normal channel
862  WS : ' '+ {$channel = HIDDEN; } ;
863
864  STRING : '"' (ESC|.)* '"' ;  // result is STRING not ESC
865
866  FLOAT : INT '.' INT? ; // should be FLOAT
867  INT : Digit+ ;
868  fragment
869  Digit : '0'..'9' ;
870
871* Fixed bug in interpreter regarding (...)* loops
872
873May 1, 2008
874
875* Fixed ANTLR-202.  These now give warnings about ambig ref to $a.
876    a : ID a -> $a | INT ;
877  and
878    a : A a {$a.text} | B ;
879
880April 30, 2008
881
882* Fixed ANTLR-237. updated -depend to know about imported grammars.
883$ java org.antlr.Tool -depend -lib foo T.g
884  ANTLR Parser Generator  Version 3.1b1 (??)  1989-2007
885  T.g: foo/Java.g
886  TParser.java : T.g
887  T.tokens : T.g
888  TLexer.java : T.g
889  T_Java : T.g
890
891April 29, 2008
892
893* Fixed ANTLR-217; scope A,B,C; didn't work
894
895* Fixed ANTLR-224; ! or ^ on item in alt with rewrite gave exception
896
897* Added token options to terminals: ID<node=V; foo="Big bob"> etc...
898  node is default so you can do ID<V> for hetero tree types. most common.
899
900April 17, 2008
901
902* Use default msg if unknown recog type in getErrorMessage():
903	String msg = e.getMessage();
904
905April 14, 2008
906
907* %x.y = foo; was not working in @members section
908
909March 29, 2008
910
911* Import couldn't handle A imports B imports C.
912
913March 27, 2008
914
915* Added get/setInputStream to Token interface and affected classes.
916
917February 26, 2008
918
919* made fillBuffer public in CommonTreeNodeStream so we can add trees
920  to stream for interactive interpreters.
921
922February 14, 2008
923
924* Fixed a bug in the code generation where tree level 0 was used
925  no matter what to rewrite trees in tree grammars. added unit test
926
927* Fixed ANTLR-221. exceptions were generated when using
928  AST construction operators and no output=AST option.
929
930February 13, 2008
931
932* Improved error msgs for unreachable alts and tokens.
933
934February 11-12, 2008
935
936* Fixed ANTLR-219.
937  It looks like the AST construction code for sets was totally messed up.
938  This was for not only the new tree parser AST construction, but also
939  the regular tree construction for parsers. I had to introduce templates
940  in the ASTTreeParser.stg file to deal with this. added unit tests:
941  TestTreeGrammarRewriteAST.testSetMatchNoRewrite(),
942  testSetMatchNoRewriteLevel2(), testSetMatchNoRewriteLevel2Root().
943  Had to add template matchRuleBlockSet()
944  to differentiate between a regular set in one that is an entire rule.
945  If it is an entire rule, it has to set the return value, retval.tree.
946
947* Fixed ANTLR-220.
948  Made TreeAdaptor dupNode and dupTree events emit debugging events
949  so AW could see tree node duplications.
950
951February 4, 2008
952
953* BACKWARD INCOMPATIBILITY
954  Added getSourceName to IntStream and TokenSource interfaces and also the
955  BaseRecognizer.  Have to know where char come from for error messages.
956  Widespread change, but a trivial one.
957
958January 17, 2008
959
960* Interpreter throws FailedPredicateException now when it sees a predicate;
961  before it was silently failing.  I'll make it work one of these days. ;)
962
963January 12, 2008
964
965* Copy ctor not copying start and stop for common token. Fixes ANTLR-212
966
967* Removed single token insertion and deletion for tokens, sets.
968  Required a change to the code generation for matchSet() template
969  and a tweak inside the BaseRecognizer.  To engage this again is easy,
970  just override mismatch() to call mismatchRecover(). I changed it to simply
971  throw an exception.
972
973* Added syntaxError recognizer state var so you can easily tell if
974  a recognizer failed.  Added getNumberOfSyntaxErrors() to recognizers.
975
976* Added doc for the error node stuff:
977  http://www.antlr.org/wiki/display/ANTLR3/Tree+construction
978
979* Fixed ANTLR-193
980
981* Added recognizer methods to answer questions about current mismatched
982  token error.  Useful now since i don't automatically recover inline
983  to such errors (I throw exception):
984	mismatchIsUnwantedToken(IntStream input, int ttype)
985	mismatchIsMissingToken(IntStream input, BitSet follow)
986
987* Added UnwantedTokenException and MissingTokenException to make
988  match() problems more precise in case you want to catch differently.
989  Updated getErrorMessage() to be more precise.  Says:
990
991	line 2:9 missing EQ at '0'
992
993  now instead of
994
995	line 2:9 mismatched input '0' expecting EQ
996
997  Input "x=9 9;" gives
998
999	line 3:8 extraneous input '9' expecting ';'
1000
1001  When very confused, "x=9 for;", you still get old mismatched message:
1002
1003	line 3:8 extraneous input 'for' expecting ';'
1004	line 3:11 mismatched input ';' expecting '('
1005
1006* Added unit tests to TestAutoAST and copied to TestRewriteAST with
1007  suitable rewrites to ensure basic error node insertion works.
1008
1009January 11, 2008
1010
1011* Adding errorNode to TreeAdaptor and various debug
1012  events/listeners.  Had to add new class runtime.tree.CommonErrorNode
1013  to hold all the goodies: input stream, start/stop objects.
1014
1015* Tweaked CommonTree.getType() to return INVALID_TOKEN_TYPE
1016  instead of literal 0 (same thing at moment though).
1017
1018* Updated ANTLRWorks to show error nodes in tree as much as I could; Jean
1019  will get to rest of it.
1020
1021January 9-10, 2008
1022
1023* Continued work on debugging/profiling composite grammars.
1024
1025* Updated debug protocol for debugging composite grammars.  enter/exit
1026  rule needs grammar to know when to flip display in AW.
1027
1028* Fixed ANTLR-209.  ANTLR consumed 2 not 1 char to recover in lexer.
1029
1030* Added two faqs instead of making changes to antlr runtime about
1031  lexer error handling:
1032  http://www.antlr.org/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=5341230
1033  http://www.antlr.org/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=5341217
1034
1035January 1-8, 2008
1036
1037* Making debugging/profiling work with composite grammars.
1038
1039* Updated ANTLRWorks so it works still for noncomposite grammars.
1040
1041* two new examples: import and composite-java (the java example grammar
1042  broken up into multiple pieces using import).
1043
1044* Worked on composite grammars.  Had to refactor a lot of code to make
1045  ANTLR deal with one meta grammar made up of multiple grammars.  I
1046  thought I had it sort of working back in August.  Yes, but barely. Lots
1047  of work to do it seemed.  Lots of clean up work.  Many new unit tests
1048  in TestCompositeGrammars.  Had to add new error messages warning about
1049  conflicting tokens inherited from multiple grammars etc...
1050
1051    TOKEN_ALIAS_CONFLICT(arg,arg2) ::=
1052      "cannot alias <arg>; string already assigned to <arg2>"
1053    TOKEN_ALIAS_REASSIGNMENT(arg,arg2) ::=
1054      "cannot alias <arg>; token name already assigned to <arg2>"
1055    TOKEN_VOCAB_IN_DELEGATE(arg,arg2) ::=
1056      "tokenVocab option ignored in imported grammar <arg>"
1057    INVALID_IMPORT(arg,arg2) ::=
1058      "<arg.grammarTypeString> grammar <arg.name> cannot import <arg2.grammarTypeString> grammar <arg2.name>"
1059    IMPORTED_TOKENS_RULE_EMPTY(arg,arg2) ::=
1060      "no lexer rules contributed to <arg> from imported grammar <arg2>"
1061    IMPORT_NAME_CLASH(arg,arg2) ::=
1062      "combined grammar <arg.name> and imported <arg2.grammarTypeString> grammar <arg2.name> both generate <arg2.recognizerName>; import ignored"
1063
1064  This stuff got really really complicated.  Syntactic predicate names even
1065  had to be scoped per grammar so they don't conflict.
1066
1067* When using subrules like (atom->atom) to set result tree, it was not
1068  properly setting result (early enough).  Future code got null for
1069  $rule.tree.
1070
1071December 31, 2007
1072
1073* Added the start of a semantic predicate computation for LL(1) to
1074  solve a problem with slow grammar analysis even with k=1 due to
1075  predicates.  Then I realized the problem with that grammar was
1076  elsewhere.  Semantic context really shouldn't be used when
1077  preventing closure recomputation (May 2008 I discovered I was
1078  wrong--you do need it).  The predicates became huge even though the
1079  reduced value would be no different.  The analyzer seems faster now
1080  that I am not testing predicate values all the time.  Further it may
1081  terminate sooner just due to reduced closure recursion.
1082
1083* Moved FIRST/FOLLOW computations to a separate class LL1Analyzer to
1084  tidy up.
1085
1086* ANTLR lexer allowed octal escapes, but they didn't work. ;)  Rather than
1087  fix, I'm removing.  Use '\uxxxx' to get even 8 bit char values: \u00xx.
1088
1089December 29, 2007
1090
1091* Fixed ANTLR-206. I wasn't avoiding analyzing decisions in
1092  left-recursive rules.
1093
1094* Had to add hetero arg to all tokenRef*() templates.  Added _last
1095  local var to track last child so we can do replaceChildren() during
1096  AST rewrite mode for tree grammars.  Should be useful later for .text
1097  property.  Ack, hetero arg is on lots of templates. :(  Moved
1098  ruleCleanUp() template into ASTTreeParser and ASTParser groups.
1099
1100* added noRewrite() template (to Java.stg) so we can insert code during
1101  rewrite mode to return original tree if no rewrite.  Might be useful
1102  for token rewrites later.  For templates too?
1103
1104* Had to add if !rewriteMode around tree construction in tree parser
1105  templates.
1106
1107* Harald Muller pointed out that we need to use <initValue(attr.type)>
1108  in our tests for null token/rule property references. For int types
1109  we need 0 not null. (p!=null?p.line:0).  Changed scopeAttributeRef,
1110  ruleLabelRef.  Also changed the known typed attributes like
1111  lexerRuleLabelPropertyRef_line to yield 0 upon null rule ref to
1112  be consistent with case when we don't know the type.  Fixes ANTLR-195.
1113  Added testTypeOfGuardedAttributeRefIsCorrect test and reset expected
1114  output for 13 tests that now "fail".
1115
1116December 28, 2007
1117
1118* added polydiff example (Java target)
1119
1120* added "int" property for token and lexer rule refs.  super convenient. E.g.,
1121  a : b=INT {int x = $b.int;} ;
1122
1123December 27, 2007
1124
1125* Changed -Xnoinlinedfa to -Xmaxinlinedfastates m where m is
1126  maximum number of states a DFA can have before ANTLR avoids
1127  inlining it.  Instead, you get a table-based DFA.  This
1128  affectively avoids some acyclic DFA that still have many states
1129  with multiple incident edges.  The combinatorial explosion smacks
1130  of infinite loop.  Fixes ANTLR-130.
1131
1132* [...] are allowed in args now but ] must be escaped as \]. E.g.,
1133  a[String[\] ick, int i] : ... ;
1134  And calling a rule: foo[x[i\], 34]
1135  Fixes ANTLR-140.
1136
1137* Fixed ANTLR-105.  Target.getTargetStringLiteralFromANTLRStringLiteral()
1138  escaped " that were already escaped.
1139
1140* target's can now specify how to encode int as char escape.  Moved
1141  DFA.encodeIntAsCharEscape to Target.
1142
1143* Bug in runtime.DFA.  If a special state (one with predicate) failed, it
1144  tried to continue (causing out of range exception due to state = -1)
1145  instead of reporting error.
1146
1147* If -dfa with combined grammar T.g, builds T.dec-*.dot and TLexer.dec-*.dot
1148
1149* Fix ANTLR-165.
1150  Generate TParser.java and TLexer.java from T.g if combined, else
1151  use T.java as output regardless of type.
1152  BACKWARD INCOMPATIBILITY since file names change.
1153  I changed the examples-v3/java to be consistent.  Required XML.g ->
1154  XMLLexer.java and fuzzy/Main.java change.
1155
1156* Fix ANTLR-169.  Deletes tmp lexer grammar file.
1157
1158December 25, 2007
1159
1160* Fixed ANTLR-111.  More unit tests in TestAttributes.
1161
1162December 25, 2007
1163
1164* Dangling states ("decision cannot distinguish between alternatives
1165  for at least one input sequence") is now an error not a warning.
1166
1167* Added sample input sequence that leads to dangling DFA state, one
1168  that cannot reach an accept state.  ANTLR ran into a case where
1169  the same input sequence reaches multiple locations in the NFA
1170  (and so not nondeterministic), but analysis ran out of further
1171  NFA states to look for more input.  Commonly at EOF target states.
1172  Now says:
1173
1174  error(202): CS.g:248:95: the decision cannot distinguish between alternative(s) 1,2 for input such as "DOT IDENTIFIER EOF"
1175
1176  Also fixed bug where dangling states did not resolve to stop states.
1177
1178* Fixed ANTLR-123
1179
1180December 17-21, 2007
1181
1182* k=1 doesn't prevent backtracking anymore as in
1183  (options {k=1;}:'else' statement)?
1184  if backtrack=true for overall grammar.  Set to false in subrule.
1185
1186* Optimized the analysis engine for LL(1).  Doesn't attempt LL(*) unless
1187  LL(1) fails.  If not LL(1) but autobacktracking but no other kind of
1188  predicate, it also avoids LL(*).  This is only important for really
1189  big 4000 line grammars etc...
1190
1191* Lots of code clean up
1192
1193December 16, 2007
1194
1195* Yet more Kay pair programming.  Saved yet more RAM; 15% by
1196  wacking NFA configurations etc in each DFA state after DFA construction.
1197
1198* Overall we drop from 2m49s to 1m11s for a huge 4000 line TSQL grammar
1199  with k=*.  Only needs -Xconversiontimeout 2000 now not
1200  -Xconversiontimeout 5000 too.  With k=1, it's 1m30s down to 40s.
1201
1202December 15, 2007
1203
1204* Working with Kay Roepke, we got about 15% speed improvement in
1205  overall ANTLR exec time.  Memory footprint seems to be about 50%
1206  smaller.
1207
1208December 13-14, 2007
1209
1210* I abort entire DFA construction now when I see recursion in > 1 alt.
1211  Decision is non-LL(*) even if some pieces are LL(*).  Safer to bail
1212  out and try with fixed k.  If user set fixed k then it continues because
1213  analysis will eventually terminate for sure.  If a pred is encountered
1214  and k=* and it's non-LL(*), it aborts and retries at k=1 but does NOT
1215  emit an error.
1216
1217* Decided that recursion overflow while computing a lookahead DFA is
1218  serious enough that I should bail out of entire DFA computation.
1219  Previously analysis tried to keep going and made the rules about
1220  how analysis worked more complicated.  Better to simply abort when
1221  decision can't be computed with current max stack (-Xm option).
1222  User can adjust or add predicate etc...  This is now an error
1223  not a warning.
1224
1225* Recursion overflow and unreachable alt is now a fatal error; no code gen.
1226  The decision will literally not work.
1227
1228* Cleaned up how DFA construction/analysis aborts due to non-LL(*) and
1229  overflow etc...  Throws exceptions now, which cleans up a bunch of IF
1230  checks etc...  Very nice now. Exceptions:
1231	analysis/AnalysisRecursionOverflowException.java
1232	analysis/AnalysisTimeoutException.java
1233	analysis/NonLLStarDecisionException.java
1234
1235* ErrorManager.grammarWarning() counted them as errors not warnings.
1236
1237* Unreachable alt warnings are now errors.
1238
1239* The upshot of these changes is that I fixed ANTLR-178 and did
1240  lots of refactoring of code handling analysis failure.
1241
1242December 11, 2007
1243
1244* Could not deal with spaces, oddly enough in arg lists:
1245	grammar Bad;
1246	a : A b["foo", $A.text] ;
1247	b[String x, String y] : C ;
1248
1249October 28, 2007
1250
1251* Made ANTLR emit a better error message when it cannot write the
1252  implicit lexer file from a combined grammar. Used to say "cannot open
1253  file", now says "cannot write file" and gives backtrace.
1254
1255September 15, 2007
1256
1257add getCharStream to Lexer.
1258
1259September 10, 2007
1260
1261* Added {{...}} forced action executed even during backtracking.
1262
1263September 9, 2007
1264
1265* r='string' in lexer got a duplicate label definition.
1266
1267August 21, 2007
1268
1269* $scope::variable refs now check for empty stack so that expr == null if
1270  $scope has an empty stack. Works for $scope[...]::variable too.  Nice!
1271
1272August 20, 2007
1273
1274* Added reset() to CommonTreeNodeStream, token stream too
1275
1276* Made refs to rule/token properties use ?: to avoid null ptr exception.
1277  $label.st now is label!=null?label.st:null.  Updated TestAttributes.
1278  This is useful not only for optional rule/token refs, but also during
1279  error recovery.  If ID is not matched, $ID.text won't cause a null ptr.
1280
1281August 20, 2007
1282*	Fixed ANTLR-177: hashCode/equals not consistent for label
1283	Fixed bug where Rule was compared to string; introduced from dev branch
1284
1285August 15, 2007 -- Got rough draft of the grammar import working.
1286                   Submit to dev and then integrate into mainline.
1287
1288	All file changes/additions:
1289
1290	README.txt	# edit
1291	CHANGES.txt	# add
1292	  Factored out the changes from the readme.
1293
1294	runtime/Java/src/org/antlr/runtime/BaseRecognizer.java	# edit
1295	runtime/Java/src/org/antlr/runtime/DFA.java	# edit
1296	runtime/Java/src/org/antlr/runtime/Lexer.java	# edit
1297	runtime/Java/src/org/antlr/runtime/Parser.java	# edit
1298	runtime/Java/src/org/antlr/runtime/debug/DebugParser.java	# edit
1299	runtime/Java/src/org/antlr/runtime/tree/TreeParser.java	# edit
1300	  Factored state fields into RecognizerSharedState
1301	  object. You will see a lot of things like
1302            state.errorRecovery = false;
1303	runtime/Java/src/org/antlr/runtime/RecognizerSharedState.java	# add
1304          Shares all recognizer state variables including lexer even though
1305	  these are superfluous to parsers and tree parsers.  There
1306	  was a casting issue that I could not resolve.
1307
1308	src/org/antlr/Tool.java	# edit
1309	  Broke a part Grammar.setGrammarContent() into
1310	  parseAndBuildAST() and analyzeGrammar() to make the grammar
1311	  import work. I needed to be able to look at the trees for
1312	  imported grammars before analyzing them and building DFA. Added
1313	  use of the CompositeGrammar object and handling of multiple
1314	  delegate grammars. Changed decision DFA DOT file names to
1315	  include the grammar name.
1316
1317	src/org/antlr/analysis/DFA.java	# edit
1318	  Just tweaked to use generics, updated a comment.
1319
1320	src/org/antlr/analysis/DecisionProbe.java	# edit
1321	  Just tweaked to use generics.
1322
1323	src/org/antlr/analysis/NFA.java	# edit
1324	  NFA now span multiple grammars and so I moved the NFAs state
1325	  tracking to the composite grammar object.
1326
1327	src/org/antlr/analysis/NFAState.java	# edit
1328	  Added some null checking and made a field public.
1329
1330	src/org/antlr/analysis/NFAToDFAConverter.java	# edit
1331	  Changed a method call to directly access a field.
1332
1333	src/org/antlr/analysis/RuleClosureTransition.java	# edit
1334	  Instead of using a rule index, which does not span multiple
1335	  grammars, the transition object now attracts a pointer to
1336	  the actual Rule definition object.
1337
1338	src/org/antlr/analysis/SemanticContext.java	# edit
1339	  Tweaked to use a field instead of a method
1340
1341	src/org/antlr/codegen/ActionTranslator.g	# edit
1342	src/org/antlr/codegen/ActionTranslatorLexer.java	# edit
1343	  Tweaked to use new runtime and they changed method name.
1344
1345	src/org/antlr/codegen/CodeGenerator.java	# edit
1346	  Tweaked comments.
1347
1348	src/org/antlr/codegen/codegen.g	# edit
1349	  Added import grammar syntax and altered rule atom to pass a
1350	  scope around so that grammar.rule works.  Caution this
1351	  feature is used internally by ANTLR and is not meant to be
1352	  used by users at this point.
1353
1354	src/org/antlr/codegen/templates/ANTLRCore.sti	# edit
1355	  Added scope to all ruleref template interfaces.
1356
1357	src/org/antlr/codegen/templates/Java/Java.stg	# edit
1358	  Grammars can now import other grammars, which I implemented
1359	  using a delegation pointer to the other grammar(s). So if
1360	  grammar A imports grammars B and C, then the generated
1361	  recognizer for A must have delegation pointers to BParser
1362	  and CParser objects. These are now fields:
1363
1364	    // delegates
1365	    <grammar.delegates:
1366	     {g|public <g.name>Lexer <g:delegateName()>;}; separator="\n">
1367
1368          Also, B and C must have back pointers to the delegator so
1369          that they can refer to rules that have been overridden.
1370          This is a mechanism akin to static inheritance:
1371
1372	    // delegators
1373	    <grammar.delegators:
1374	     {g|public <g.name>Lexer <g:delegateName()>;}; separator="\n">
1375
1376	  This file also has a lot of changes so that state variables
1377	  now are state.backtracking instead of the implied
1378	  this.backtracking.
1379
1380	  The file also refers to grammar.delegatedRules attribute
1381	  which is the list of Rule objects for which you must
1382	  generate manual delegation.  This amounts to a stub whereby
1383	  rule foo's method foo() simply calls X.foo() if foo is not
1384	  defined inside the delegator.
1385
1386	  You will notice that the ruleref templates now take a scope
1387	  so that I can have implicit rule Tokens referred to
1388	  delegate.Tokens rule in a delegate grammar.  This is the way
1389	  I do lexer grammar imports.
1390
1391	  I added a template called delegateName which uses the
1392	  grammar name to compute a delegate name if the user does not
1393	  specify a label in the import statement such as:
1394
1395	  import x=X;
1396
1397	  Oh, note that rule reference templates all receive a Rule
1398	  object now instead of the simple rule name as the 'rule'
1399	  attribute.  You will see me doing <rule.name> instead of
1400	  <name> now.
1401
1402	src/org/antlr/codegen/templates/Java/Dbg.stg	# edit
1403	  Changes mirroring the constructor and field stuff from
1404	  Java.stg. Part of this is a cut and paste because of a bug
1405	  in ST.
1406
1407	src/org/antlr/codegen/templates/Java/AST.stg	# edit
1408	src/org/antlr/codegen/templates/Java/ASTParser.stg	# edit
1409	src/org/antlr/codegen/templates/Java/ASTTreeParser.stg	# edit
1410	  Just added the scope attribute.
1411
1412	src/org/antlr/test/BaseTest.java	# edit
1413	  Added functionality to support testing composite grammars.
1414	    execLexer()
1415
1416	src/org/antlr/test/TestAttributes.java	# edit
1417	  Tweak to deal with shared recognizer state.
1418
1419	src/org/antlr/test/TestCompositeGrammars.java	# add
1420	  Start of my unit tests.
1421
1422	src/org/antlr/tool/CompositeGrammar.java	# add
1423	src/org/antlr/tool/CompositeGrammarTree.java	# add
1424	  Tracks main grammar and all delegate grammars. Tracks unique
1425	  NFA state numbers and unique token types. This keeps a tree
1426	  of grammars computed from the import/delegation chain. When
1427	  you want to look up a rule, it starts at the root of the
1428	  tree and does a pre-order search to find the rule.
1429
1430	src/org/antlr/tool/ActionAnalysis.g	# edit
1431	src/org/antlr/tool/ActionAnalysisLexer.java	# edit
1432
1433	src/org/antlr/tool/AttributeScope.java	# edit
1434	  Updated to use generics in one place.
1435
1436	src/org/antlr/tool/DOTGenerator.java	# edit
1437	  Updated to indicate when nonlocal rules are referenced.
1438
1439	src/org/antlr/tool/ErrorManager.java	# edit
1440	  Added some error messages for import grammars; I need more.
1441
1442	src/org/antlr/tool/FASerializer.java	# edit
1443	  Tweaked to use a field not method.
1444
1445	src/org/antlr/tool/Grammar.java	# edit
1446	  This is where most of the meat is for the grammar import
1447	  stuff as you can imagine.  I factored out the token type
1448	  tracking into the CompositeGrammar object. I added code to
1449	  the addArtificialMatchTokensRule method so that it includes
1450	  references to all delegate lexer Tokens rules. Altered the
1451	  rule lookup stuff so that it knows about delegate grammars.
1452
1453	src/org/antlr/tool/GrammarAST.java	# edit
1454	src/org/antlr/tool/GrammarAnalysisAbortedMessage.java	# edit
1455	src/org/antlr/tool/GrammarReport.java	# edit
1456	src/org/antlr/tool/NonRegularDecisionMessage.java	# edit
1457	  Made enclosing rule visible as field.
1458
1459	src/org/antlr/tool/GrammarSanity.java	# edit
1460	  General cleanup and addition of generics.
1461
1462	src/org/antlr/tool/Interpreter.java	# edit
1463	  Reference fields instead of methods.
1464
1465	src/org/antlr/tool/NFAFactory.java	# edit
1466	  General cleanup and use of Rule object instead of rule
1467	  index.
1468
1469	src/org/antlr/tool/NameSpaceChecker.java	# edit
1470	  A little bit of cleanup and changes to use either the local
1471	  or globally visible rule. Added code to check that scopes
1472	  are valid on scoped rule references. again this is an
1473	  internal feature, not to be used by users.
1474
1475	src/org/antlr/tool/RandomPhrase.java	# edit
1476	  Tweaked.
1477
1478	src/org/antlr/tool/Rule.java	# edit
1479	  Added field imported. Removed some unused methods by
1480	  commenting them out. Made toString() more expressive.
1481
1482	src/org/antlr/tool/antlr.g	# edit
1483	src/org/antlr/tool/antlr.print.g	# edit
1484	src/org/antlr/tool/assign.types.g	# edit
1485	src/org/antlr/tool/buildnfa.g	# edit
1486	src/org/antlr/tool/define.g	# edit
1487	  Added syntax for import statement.  assign.types.g is the
1488	  grammar that invokes Grammar.importGrammar().
1489
1490	src/org/antlr/tool/templates/messages/languages/en.stg	# edit
1491	  Added error messages.
1492
1493	Added
1494
1495	CHANGES.txt
1496	runtime/Java/src/org/antlr/runtime/RecognizerSharedState.java
1497	src/org/antlr/test/TestCompositeGrammars.java
1498	src/org/antlr/tool/CompositeGrammar.java
1499	src/org/antlr/tool/CompositeGrammarTree.java
1500
15013.0.1 - August 13, 2007
1502
1503[See target pages on the wiki for more information on the non-Java targets]
1504
1505August 7, 2007
1506
1507* added escaping of double quotes in DOTTreeGenerator
1508
1509July 22, 2007
1510
1511* fixed dynamic scope implementation in lexers. They were not creating new scope
1512  entries on the stack.  Unsupported feature!
1513
1514July 30, 2007
1515
1516* float return values were initalized to 0.0 not 0.0f in java.
1517
1518July 28, 2007
1519
1520* Sam Ellis points out an init var bug in ANTLRReaderStream.
1521
1522July 27, 2007 (done in dev branch)
1523
1524* Moved token type index stuff from CommonTreeNodeStream to TreeWizard
1525
1526* Added getChildren to BaseTree.
1527
1528* Added heterogeneous tree functionality; rewrite for parser/tree parser
1529  and auto AST constr. for parser.
1530
1531	org/antlr/runtime/tree/RewriteRuleElementStream.java
1532	org/antlr/runtime/tree/RewriteRuleNodeStream.java
1533	org/antlr/runtime/tree/RewriteRuleTokenStream.java
1534		Renamed method next() and re-factor things to have more
1535		specific methods: nextToken, nextNode, nextTree.
1536
1537	codegen/codegen.g
1538		Updated to include new <NodeType> AST structure for
1539		token references.  Pushed hereto attribute into
1540		all tokenRef* templates.
1541	codegen/templates/Java/AST.stg
1542		Factored out a few templates:
1543			createImaginaryNode(tokenType,hetero,args)
1544			createRewriteNodeFromElement(token,hetero,args)
1545		Converted a lot of stream next() calls to more specific
1546			nextToken, nextNode, nextTree per above.
1547	codegen/templates/Java/ASTParser.stg
1548		Added createNodeFromToken template and re-factored creation
1549		sites to use that template.  Added hetero attribute.
1550	codegen/templates/Java/ASTTreeParser.stg
1551		Added createRewriteNodeFromElement template and re-factored.
1552
1553	test/TestHeteroAST.java
1554		New file. Unit tests to test new hetero tree construction.
1555	test/TestRewriteAST.java
1556		Fixed test.  Nil single-node trees no longer return nil;
1557		They return null.
1558
1559	tool/ErrorManager.java
1560	tool/templates/messages/languages/en.stg
1561		Added error message:
1562		HETERO_ILLEGAL_IN_REWRITE_ALT(arg) ::=
1563		  "alts with rewrites can't use heterogeneous types left of ->"
1564
1565	tool/antlr.g
1566	tool/antlr.print.g
1567	tool/assign.types.g
1568	tool/buildnfa.g
1569	tool/define.g
1570		Added syntax for <NodeType> to token references.
1571		Altered AST structure rippled through different phases.
1572
1573July 24, 2007
1574
1575* Deleted DoubleLinkTree.java; CommonTree does that now.
1576
1577July 23, 2007
1578
1579* template group outputFile; changed rewrite arg to rewriteMode.
1580
1581* added rewrite mode for tree parser build AST.
1582
1583July 22, 2007
1584
1585* Kay fixed dynamic scope implementation in lexers. They were not
1586  creating new scope entries on the stack.  This is an UNSUPPORTED feature.
1587
1588* added getParent and getChildIndex to TreeAdaptor.  Added
1589  implementation to CommonTree.  It's just too useful having those
1590  parent and child indexes available for rewriting etc...  I tried 2x
1591  to make an implementation of tree rewriting w/o this and the
1592  constraints just made it too expensive and complicated.  Have to
1593  update adaptors to set parent, child index values.  Updated Tree
1594  interface and BaseTree also.  Should only affect target developers
1595  not users.  Well, unless they impl Tree.
1596
1597* dupNode (via ctor) of CommonTree didn't copy start/stop token indexes.
1598
1599TARGET DEVELOPERS WARNING -- AST.stg split with some functionality
1600                             going into ASTParser.stg then I added
1601                             ASTTreeParser.stg.  CodeGenerator
1602                             assumes new subgroups exist.
1603
1604July 20, 2007
1605
1606* Added AST construction for tree parsers including -> rewrite rules.
1607  Rewrite mode (rewrite=true) alters the tree in place rather than
1608  constructing a whole new tree.  Implementation notes:
1609
1610  org/antlr/runtime/tree/Tree.java
1611	Add methods for parent and child index functionality.
1612	Also added freshenParentAndChildIndexes() which you can use
1613	to ensure that all double linking is set up right after you
1614	manipulate the tree manually.  The setChild preteens etc. do
1615	the proper thing so you shouldn't need this.
1616	Added replaceChildren() to support tree rewrite mode in tree parsers
1617  org/antlr/runtime/tree/BaseTree.java
1618	Updated to set parent and child index stuff.  Added replaceChildren
1619	method etc...  It still only has a list of children as sole field
1620     	but calls methods that subclasses can choose to implement such as
1621	CommonTree.
1622  org/antlr/runtime/tree/CommonTree.java
1623	Added parent and childIndex fields to doubly link.
1624  org/antlr/runtime/tree/TreeAdaptor.java
1625	Added methods for new parent and child index functionality.
1626	Also added method for rewrite mode in tree parsers:
1627	replaceChildren(Object parent, int startChildIndex,
1628                        int stopChildIndex, Object t);
1629	Added setChild and deleteChild methods
1630  org/antlr/runtime/tree/BaseTreeAdaptor.java
1631	Moved dupTree here from BaseTree.
1632	Updated rulePostProcessing to deal with parent and child index.
1633	Added setChild and deleteChild implementations
1634  org/antlr/runtime/tree/CommonTreeAdaptor.java
1635	Added methods to deal with the parent and child index for a node.
1636
1637  org/antlr/runtime/tree/CommonTreeNodeStream.java
1638	Removed token type index and method fillReverseIndex etc...
1639	Probably will move into the tree wizard in the future.
1640	Changed call/seek stack implementation to use IntArray
1641	Added replaceChildren interface.
1642  org/antlr/runtime/tree/TreeNodeStream.java
1643	Added replaceChildren.
1644  org/antlr/runtime/tree/UnBufferedTreeNodeStream.java
1645	Added replaceChildren method but no implementation
1646
1647  codegen/templates/ANTLRCore.sti
1648	Changed rewrite to a better name: rewriteMode
1649	Added tree level argument to alt, tree so that auto AST
1650        construction can occur while recognizing in tree parsers.
1651
1652  codegen/templates/Java/AST.stg
1653	Split template group: added two subclasses to handle different
1654	functionality for normal parsing and tree parsing + AST
1655	construction.  Tree parsers default behavior is to dup tree
1656	not construct another.  Added ASTParser.stg and
1657	ASTTreeParser.stg to handle auto AST construction during
1658	recognition for the two different parser types.  I just copied
1659	the token, rule, set, wildcard templates to the subclasses.
1660	The rewrite templates are still in AST.stg. I factored out the
1661	node creation so that the same rewrite templates can be used
1662	for both parsing and tree parsing.
1663
1664  codegen/templates/Java/ASTParser.stg
1665	The templates needed to build trees with auto construction
1666	during parsing.
1667  codegen/templates/Java/ASTTreeParser.stg
1668	The templates needed to build trees with auto construction
1669	during tree parsing.
1670  codegen/templates/Java/Java.stg
1671	genericParser now has rewriteElementType (Note or Token) so
1672	that the rewrite streams know what kind of elements are inside
1673	during rewrite rule tree construction.
1674  codegen/templates/Java/ST.stg
1675	rewrite attribute name change to rewriteMode
1676
1677  org/antlr/runtime/debug/DebugTreeAdaptor.java
1678  org/antlr/runtime/debug/DebugTreeNodeStream.java
1679	Updated to handle new interfaces
1680
1681  test/BaseTest.java
1682	Added test rig update to handle AST construction by tree parsers.
1683	All tree construction runs automatically test sanity of parent
1684	and child indexes.
1685  test/TestTreeGrammarRewriteAST.java
1686  test/TestTreeNodeStream.java
1687  test/TestTrees.java
1688	new file; tests the new parent and child index stuff in trees.
1689
1690July 19, 2007
1691
1692* implemented new unique ID; GC was causing non unique hash codes.  Debugging
1693  tree grammars was messing up.
1694
1695* got tree rewrites working in tree grammars.  It builds a completely new
1696  tree from old tree; i.e., you get two trees in memory.  W/o a rewrite
1697  rule, the input for that rule is duplicated and returned. -> w/o elements
1698  to the right means don't return anything; i.e., delete.  Ooops...way
1699  harder than I thought.  Real implementation notes above.
1700
1701INCOMPATIBILITY WARNING -- templates have changed; must regen output from
1702                           grammars.  Runtime libraries have also changed.
1703                           Debug event listener interface has changed also.
1704
1705July 17, 2007
1706
1707* Added line/charposition to node socket events and event dump so
1708  we have more info during tree parsing.  Only works if your
1709  tree adaptor returns a value Token object from getToken(treenode)
1710  with line/col set.  Refactored consumeNode/LN to use deserializeNode().
1711
1712* Fixed mismatched tree node exceptions; for imaginary nodes, it said
1713  "missing null".  Now prints the token type we found.
1714
1715* Cleaned up exception stuff. MismatchedTreeNodeException was setting
1716  line/col, but only RecognitionException should do that.
1717
1718* If imaginary token gets a mismatch, there is no line info.  Search
1719  backwards in stream if input node stream supports to find last
1720  node with good line/col info. E.g.,
1721
1722ANTLRv3Tree.g: node from after line 156:72 mismatched tree node: EOA expecting <UP>
1723
1724  which used to be:
1725
1726ANTLRv3Tree.g: node from line 0:0 mismatched tree node: null expecting <UP>
1727
1728* mismatched tree node exceptions were not sent to the debug event stream.
1729  Due to a type being slightly different on recoverFromMismatchedToken()
1730  in DebugTreeParser.  Was calling BaseRecognizer version not subclass.
1731  Now we get:
1732
1733  9459:   Recognition exception MismatchedTreeNodeException(0!=0)
1734
1735* List labels were not allowed as root nodes in tree rewrites like
1736  ^($listlabel ...).  Had to add a template to AST.stg:
1737
1738  /** Gen ^($label ...) where label+=... */
1739  rewriteTokenListLabelRefRoot ::= rewriteTokenLabelRefRoot
1740
1741
1742July 16, 2007
1743
1744* fixed nextNode in RewriteRuleSubtreeStream was dup'ing too much,
1745  screwing up debug event stream.  Also there was a bug in how
1746  the rewrite tree stream stuff decided to dup nodes.
1747
1748* fixed bug in LT for tree parsing; text was not transmitted properly;
1749  only single words worked.
1750
1751* made decision for rule put line/col on colon not first token of first alt.
1752
1753* remote ProxyToken now emits token index for easier debugging when looking
1754  at AW's event stream.  For example, the @5 here is the token index:
1755
1756  31	Consume hidden [ /<64>,channel=99,30:7, @5]
1757
1758* same is true for consume nodes now:
1759
1760  25586	Consume node [')'/, <44>, 4712040,@1749]	25
1761
1762  When debugging tree parsers, it helps to track errors when you know
1763  what corresponding input symbol created this tree node.
1764
1765* Changed debug events associated with trees quite a bit.  Passes nodes around
1766  now rather than text, type, unique IDs etc...  Mostly affects internal stuff.
1767  Target developers will have some work in their runtime to do to match
1768  this change. :(  BUT, there is only a slight tweak in the Dbg.stg
1769  and ASTDbg.stg templates.
1770  Interface just didn't make sense as is.  If you turn on debugging, and
1771  want to track a node creation, you want the node pointer not its ID,
1772  text, etc...
1773  Added ProxyTree for passing across socket.  Has line/charpos and tokenIndex
1774
1775July 15, 2007
1776
1777* added null ptr protection in CommonTreeAdaptor.
1778
1779July 14, 2007
1780
1781* null child in TreeAdaptor does nothing now.  Changed interface and
1782  implementation.  Changed DebugTreeAdaptor to not fire events on null add
1783  as well.
1784
1785July 12, 2007
1786
1787* added get method for the line/col to DFA map in Grammar.java
1788
1789July 7, 2007
1790
1791* fixed wrong order of test for exceptions in Lexer.getErrorMessage()
1792
1793June 28, 2007
1794
1795* Added ability to set the port number in the constructor for the debug parser.
1796
1797June 5, 2007
1798
1799* Changed (hidden) option -verbose to -Xnfastates; this just prints out the NFA states along each nondeterministic path for nondeterminism warnings.
1800
1801May 18, 2007
1802
1803* there were some dependencies with org.antlr.* that I removed from
1804  org.antlr.runtime.*
1805
18063.0 final - May 17, 2007
1807
1808May 14, 2007
1809
1810* Auto backtracking didn't work with ! and ^ suffixes on first element
1811  of an alt.
1812
1813* Auto backtracking didn't work with an action as first element.
1814
1815May 10, 2007
1816
1817* turn off the warning about no local messages:
1818 no such locale file org/antlr/tool/templates/messages/languages/ru.stg retrying with English locale
1819
1820May 5, 2007
1821
1822* moving org.antlr.runtime to runtime/Java/src/org/... Other target
1823  source / libs are under runtime/targetname.
1824
1825May 4, 2007
1826
1827* You could not use arguments on a token reference that was a route in a
1828  tree rewrite rule like -> ^(ID[args] ...).
1829
1830May 3, 2007
1831
1832* Fixed ANTLR-82.  Actions after the root were considered part of
1833  an optional child.  They were not always executed.  Required a change
1834  to the ANTLRCore.sti interface for tree() template.
1835
1836May 2, 2007
1837
1838* Fixed ANTLR-117. Wasn't building decisions properly for subrules in
1839  syntactic predicates.
1840
1841April 22, 2007
1842
1843* Made build.xml ref all jars in antlr lib.  Thanks to Miguel Ping.
1844
1845* Fixed ANTLR-11
1846
1847* Now labels on ranges and such in lexer work properly.
1848
1849* ActionAnalysisLexer was in wrong package.
1850
1851April 21, 2007
1852
1853* Pushing a huge update that fixes:
1854	http://www.antlr.org/browse/ANTLR-112
1855	http://www.antlr.org/browse/ANTLR-110
1856	http://www.antlr.org/browse/ANTLR-109
1857	http://www.antlr.org/browse/ANTLR-103
1858	http://www.antlr.org/browse/ANTLR-97
1859	http://www.antlr.org/browse/ANTLR-113
1860	http://www.antlr.org/browse/ANTLR-66
1861	http://www.antlr.org/browse/ANTLR-98
1862	http://www.antlr.org/browse/ANTLR-24
1863	http://www.antlr.org/browse/ANTLR-114
1864	http://www.antlr.org/browse/ANTLR-5
1865	http://www.antlr.org/browse/ANTLR-6
1866
1867  Basically, I gutted the way AST rewrites work.  MUCH better.
1868
1869* Fixed lots of little label issues in the lexer.  Couldn't do x+=ID
1870  in lexer, for example.  Fixed ANTLR-114, ANTLR-112
1871
1872* Isolated EOT transition in lexer generated dangling else clause.
1873  Fixed ANTLR-113.
1874
1875April 17, 2007
1876
1877* Fixed a major problem with gated semantic predicates.  Added more
1878  unit tests.
1879
1880* Fixed bug in cyclic DFA with syntactic predicates.  Wasn't rewinding
1881  properly.  Further, mark() in token stream did not fill buffer so
1882  when you rewound back to last marker index was -1 not 0.  At same time
1883  I fixed ANTLR-103.  Syn preds evaluated only once now.
1884
1885* Altered code gen file writing so it writes directly to a file
1886  instead of building a big string and then writing that out.  Should
1887  be faster and much less memory intensive.
1888
1889* Fixed so antlr writes files to correct location again.  See:
1890
1891http://www.antlr.org/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1862
1892
18933.0b7 - April 12, 2007
1894
1895April 10, 2007
1896
1897* Allows -> {...} actions now when building ASTs.  Fixed ANTLR-14.
1898
1899* Allows ! on sets and wildcard now during output=AST option. Fixed ANTLR-17.
1900
1901* Fixed ANTLR-92 bug.  Couldn't use sets with -> tree construction.
1902
1903* No lexer rule for a token type is now a warning.
1904
1905* Fixed set labels in lexer; ANTLR-60 bug
1906
1907* Fixed problem with duplicate state variable definitions in switch-case
1908
1909April 9, 2007
1910
1911* Gated predicates didn't work properly in cyclic DFA.
1912
1913April 7, 2007
1914
1915* Couldn't have more than one set per rule it seems.  Fixed.
1916
1917April 3, 2007
1918
1919* Fix a problem in my unused label optimization.  Added new
1920  pass over actions to examine them.
1921
1922* RuleReturnScope has method back:
1923  /** Has a value potentially if output=template; Don't use StringTemplate
1924   *  type as it then causes a dependency with ST lib.
1925   */
1926  public Object getTemplate() { return null; }
1927
1928March 30, 2007
1929
1930* Fixed ANTLR-8.  Labels to rules w/o return values caused compile errors.
1931
1932* Fixed ANTLR-89; semantic predicates in lexer sometimes
1933  caused exception in code gen.
1934
1935* Fixed ANTLR-36; remove runtime dependency with ST
1936
1937March 29, 2007
1938
1939* Over last few days, I've gutted how ANTLR handles sets of chars or
1940  tokens.  I cleaned up a lot of stuff in the grammars and added lots
1941  of unit tests.
1942
1943March 26, 2007
1944
1945* CommonTreeNodeStream didn't push correctly; couldn't handle very
1946  deeply nested trees.
1947
1948* Fixed bug that E : 'a' 'b' ; made E be seen as an alias of 'a'.
1949
1950March 22, 2007
1951
1952* Working with Egor Ushakov from Sun Optimization / NetBeans team I
1953  made all the Java lexer transition tables static w/o screwing up
1954  ability to reference semantic predicates etc...  Only changed Java.stg
1955
1956* cached text string in CommonToken.getText(); saves on repeated calls;
1957  Java mode.
1958
1959* made all generated methods final; saves a few percent speed according to
1960  Egor Ushakov (Java only).
1961
1962* removed most assignments from each lexer rule and even the Lexer.emit()
1963  call!  All done in nextToken now.  Saves on code gen size and a wee bit of
1964  execution speed probably.  Variables became fields: type, channel, line,
1965  etc... Now emit() needs no args even.  Again, Egor helped on this.
1966
1967March 17, 2007
1968
1969* Jonathan DeKlotz updated C# templates to be 3.0b6 current
1970
1971March 14, 2007
1972
1973* Manually-specified (...)=> force backtracking eval of that predicate.
1974  backtracking=true mode does not however.  Added unit test.
1975
1976March 14, 2007
1977
1978* Fixed bug in lexer where ~T didn't compute the set from rule T.
1979
1980* Added -Xnoinlinedfa make all DFA with tables; no inline prediction with IFs
1981
1982* Fixed http://www.antlr.org/browse/ANTLR-80.
1983  Sem pred states didn't define lookahead vars.
1984
1985* Fixed http://www.antlr.org/browse/ANTLR-91.
1986  When forcing some acyclic DFA to be state tables, they broke.
1987  Forcing all DFA to be state tables should give same results.
1988
1989March 12, 2007
1990
1991* setTokenSource in CommonTokenStream didn't clear tokens list.
1992  setCharStream calls reset in Lexer.
1993
1994* Altered -depend.  No longer printing grammar files for multiple input
1995  files with -depend.  Doesn't show T__.g temp file anymore. Added
1996  TLexer.tokens.  Added .h files if defined.
1997
1998February 11, 2007
1999
2000* Added -depend command-line option that, instead of processing files,
2001  it shows you what files the input grammar(s) depend on and what files
2002  they generate. For combined grammar T.g:
2003
2004  $ java org.antlr.Tool -depend T.g
2005
2006  You get:
2007
2008  TParser.java : T.g
2009  T.tokens : T.g
2010  T__.g : T.g
2011
2012  Now, assuming U.g is a tree grammar ref'd T's tokens:
2013
2014  $ java org.antlr.Tool -depend T.g U.g
2015
2016  TParser.java : T.g
2017  T.tokens : T.g
2018  T__.g : T.g
2019  U.g: T.tokens
2020  U.java : U.g
2021  U.tokens : U.g
2022
2023  Handles spaces by escaping them.  Pays attention to -o, -fo and -lib.
2024  Dir 'x y' is a valid dir in current dir.
2025
2026  $ java org.antlr.Tool -depend -lib /usr/local/lib -o 'x y' T.g U.g
2027  x\ y/TParser.java : T.g
2028  x\ y/T.tokens : T.g
2029  x\ y/T__.g : T.g
2030  U.g: /usr/local/lib/T.tokens
2031  x\ y/U.java : U.g
2032  x\ y/U.tokens : U.g
2033
2034  You have API access via org.antlr.tool.BuildDependencyGenerator class:
2035  getGeneratedFileList(), getDependenciesFileList().  You can also access
2036  the output template: getDependencies().  The file
2037  org/antlr/tool/templates/depend.stg contains the template.  You can
2038  modify as you want.  File objects go in so you can play with path etc...
2039
2040February 10, 2007
2041
2042* no more .gl files generated.  All .g all the time.
2043
2044* changed @finally to be @after and added a finally clause to the
2045  exception stuff.  I also removed the superfluous "exception"
2046  keyword.  Here's what the new syntax looks like:
2047
2048  a
2049  @after { System.out.println("ick"); }
2050    : 'a'
2051    ;
2052    catch[RecognitionException e] { System.out.println("foo"); }
2053    catch[IOException e] { System.out.println("io"); }
2054    finally { System.out.println("foobar"); }
2055
2056  @after executes after bookkeeping to set $rule.stop, $rule.tree but
2057  before scopes pop and any memoization happens.  Dynamic scopes and
2058  memoization are still in generated finally block because they must
2059  exec even if error in rule.  The @after action and tree setting
2060  stuff can technically be skipped upon syntax error in rule.  [Later
2061  we might add something to finally to stick an ERROR token in the
2062  tree and set the return value.]  Sequence goes: set $stop, $tree (if
2063  any), @after (if any), pop scopes (if any), memoize (if needed),
2064  grammar finally clause.  Last 3 are in generated code's finally
2065  clause.
2066
20673.0b6 - January 31, 2007
2068
2069January 30, 2007
2070
2071* Fixed bug in IntervalSet.and: it returned the same empty set all the time
2072  rather than new empty set.  Code altered the same empty set.
2073
2074* Made analysis terminate faster upon a decision that takes too long;
2075  it seemed to keep doing work for a while.  Refactored some names
2076  and updated comments.  Also made it terminate when it realizes it's
2077  non-LL(*) due to recursion.  just added terminate conditions to loop
2078  in convert().
2079
2080* Sometimes fatal non-LL(*) messages didn't appear; instead you got
2081  "antlr couldn't analyze", which is actually untrue.  I had the
2082  order of some prints wrong in the DecisionProbe.
2083
2084* The code generator incorrectly detected when it could use a fixed,
2085  acyclic inline DFA (i.e., using an IF).  Upon non-LL(*) decisions
2086  with predicates, analysis made cyclic DFA.  But this stops
2087  the computation detecting whether they are cyclic.  I just added
2088  a protection in front of the acyclic DFA generator to avoid if
2089  non-LL(*).  Updated comments.
2090
2091January 23, 2007
2092
2093* Made tree node streams use adaptor to create navigation nodes.
2094  Thanks to Emond Papegaaij.
2095
2096January 22, 2007
2097
2098* Added lexer rule properties: start, stop
2099
2100January 1, 2007
2101
2102* analysis failsafe is back on; if a decision takes too long, it bails out
2103  and uses k=1
2104
2105January 1, 2007
2106
2107* += labels for rules only work for output option; previously elements
2108  of list were the return value structs, but are now either the tree or
2109  StringTemplate return value.  You can label different rules now
2110  x+=a x+=b.
2111
2112December 30, 2006
2113
2114* Allow \" to work correctly in "..." template.
2115
2116December 28, 2006
2117
2118* errors that are now warnings: missing AST label type in trees.
2119  Also "no start rule detected" is warning.
2120
2121* tree grammars also can do rewrite=true for output=template.
2122  Only works for alts with single node or tree as alt elements.
2123  If you are going to use $text in a tree grammar or do rewrite=true
2124  for templates, you must use in your main:
2125
2126  nodes.setTokenStream(tokens);
2127
2128* You get a warning for tree grammars that do rewrite=true and
2129  output=template and have -> for alts that are not simple nodes
2130  or simple trees.  new unit tests in TestRewriteTemplates at end.
2131
2132December 27, 2006
2133
2134* Error message appears when you use -> in tree grammar with
2135  output=template and rewrite=true for alt that is not simple
2136  node or tree ref.
2137
2138* no more $stop attribute for tree parsers; meaningless/useless.
2139  Removed from TreeRuleReturnScope also.
2140
2141* rule text attribute in tree parser must pull from token buffer.
2142  Makes no sense otherwise.  added getTokenStream to TreeNodeStream
2143  so rule $text attr works.  CommonTreeNodeStream etc... now let
2144  you set the token stream so you can access later from tree parser.
2145  $text is not well-defined for rules like
2146
2147     slist : stat+ ;
2148
2149  because stat is not a single node nor rooted with a single node.
2150  $slist.text will get only first stat.  I need to add a warning about
2151  this...
2152
2153* Fixed http://www.antlr.org/browse/ANTLR-76 for Java.
2154  Enhanced TokenRewriteStream so it accepts any object; converts
2155  to string at last second.  Allows you to rewrite with StringTemplate
2156  templates now :)
2157
2158* added rewrite option that makes -> template rewrites do replace ops for
2159  TokenRewriteStream input stream.  In output=template and rewrite=true mode
2160  same as before 'cept that the parser does
2161
2162    ((TokenRewriteStream)input).replace(
2163	      ((Token)retval.start).getTokenIndex(),
2164	      input.LT(-1).getTokenIndex(),
2165	      retval.st);
2166
2167  after each rewrite so that the input stream is altered.  Later refs to
2168  $text will have rewrites.  Here's a sample test program for grammar Rew.
2169
2170        FileReader groupFileR = new FileReader("Rew.stg");
2171        StringTemplateGroup templates = new StringTemplateGroup(groupFileR);
2172        ANTLRInputStream input = new ANTLRInputStream(System.in);
2173        RewLexer lexer = new RewLexer(input);
2174        TokenRewriteStream tokens = new TokenRewriteStream(lexer);
2175        RewParser parser = new RewParser(tokens);
2176        parser.setTemplateLib(templates);
2177        parser.program();
2178        System.out.println(tokens.toString());
2179        groupFileR.close();
2180
2181December 26, 2006
2182
2183* BaseTree.dupTree didn't dup recursively.
2184
2185December 24, 2006
2186
2187* Cleaned up some comments and removed field treeNode
2188  from MismatchedTreeNodeException class.  It is "node" in
2189  RecognitionException.
2190
2191* Changed type from Object to BitSet for expecting fields in
2192  MismatchedSetException and MismatchedNotSetException
2193
2194* Cleaned up error printing in lexers and the messages that it creates.
2195
2196* Added this to TreeAdaptor:
2197	/** Return the token object from which this node was created.
2198	 *  Currently used only for printing an error message.
2199	 *  The error display routine in BaseRecognizer needs to
2200	 *  display where the input the error occurred. If your
2201	 *  tree of limitation does not store information that can
2202	 *  lead you to the token, you can create a token filled with
2203	 *  the appropriate information and pass that back.  See
2204	 *  BaseRecognizer.getErrorMessage().
2205	 */
2206	public Token getToken(Object t);
2207
2208December 23, 2006
2209
2210* made BaseRecognizer.displayRecognitionError nonstatic so people can
2211  override it. Not sure why it was static before.
2212
2213* Removed state/decision message that comes out of no
2214  viable alternative exceptions, as that was too much.
2215  removed the decision number from the early exit exception
2216  also.  During development, you can simply override
2217  displayRecognitionError from BaseRecognizer to add the stuff
2218  back in if you want.
2219
2220* made output go to an output method you can override: emitErrorMessage()
2221
2222* general cleanup of the error emitting code in BaseRecognizer.  Lots
2223  more stuff you can override: getErrorHeader, getTokenErrorDisplay,
2224  emitErrorMessage, getErrorMessage.
2225
2226December 22, 2006
2227
2228* Altered Tree.Parser.matchAny() so that it skips entire trees if
2229  node has children otherwise skips one node.  Now this works to
2230  skip entire body of function if single-rooted subtree:
2231  ^(FUNC name=ID arg=ID .)
2232
2233* Added "reverse index" from node to stream index.  Override
2234  fillReverseIndex() in CommonTreeNodeStream if you want to change.
2235  Use getNodeIndex(node) to find stream index for a specific tree node.
2236  See getNodeIndex(), reverseIndex(Set tokenTypes),
2237  reverseIndex(int tokenType), fillReverseIndex().  The indexing
2238  costs time and memory to fill, but pulling stuff out will be lots
2239  faster as it can jump from a node ptr straight to a stream index.
2240
2241* Added TreeNodeStream.get(index) to make it easier for interpreters to
2242  jump around in tree node stream.
2243
2244* New CommonTreeNodeStream buffers all nodes in stream for fast jumping
2245  around.  It now has push/pop methods to invoke other locations in
2246  the stream for building interpreters.
2247
2248* Moved CommonTreeNodeStream to UnBufferedTreeNodeStream and removed
2249  Iterator implementation.  moved toNodesOnlyString() to TestTreeNodeStream
2250
2251* [BREAKS ANY TREE IMPLEMENTATION]
2252  made CommonTreeNodeStream work with any tree node type.  TreeAdaptor
2253  now implements isNil so must add; trivial, but does break back
2254  compatibility.
2255
2256December 17, 2006
2257
2258* Added traceIn/Out methods to recognizers so that you can override them;
2259  previously they were in-line print statements. The message has also
2260  been slightly improved.
2261
2262* Factored BuildParseTree into debug package; cleaned stuff up. Fixed
2263  unit tests.
2264
2265December 15, 2006
2266
2267* [BREAKS ANY TREE IMPLEMENTATION]
2268  org.antlr.runtime.tree.Tree; needed to add get/set for token start/stop
2269  index so CommonTreeAdaptor can assume Tree interface not CommonTree
2270  implementation.  Otherwise, no way to create your own nodes that satisfy
2271  Tree because CommonTreeAdaptor was doing
2272
2273	public int getTokenStartIndex(Object t) {
2274		return ((CommonTree)t).startIndex;
2275	}
2276
2277  Added to Tree:
2278
2279	/**  What is the smallest token index (indexing from 0) for this node
2280	 *   and its children?
2281	 */
2282	int getTokenStartIndex();
2283
2284	void setTokenStartIndex(int index);
2285
2286	/**  What is the largest token index (indexing from 0) for this node
2287	 *   and its children?
2288	 */
2289	int getTokenStopIndex();
2290
2291	void setTokenStopIndex(int index);
2292
2293December 13, 2006
2294
2295* Added org.antlr.runtime.tree.DOTTreeGenerator so you can generate DOT
2296  diagrams easily from trees.
2297
2298	CharStream input = new ANTLRInputStream(System.in);
2299	TLexer lex = new TLexer(input);
2300	CommonTokenStream tokens = new CommonTokenStream(lex);
2301	TParser parser = new TParser(tokens);
2302	TParser.e_return r = parser.e();
2303	Tree t = (Tree)r.tree;
2304	System.out.println(t.toStringTree());
2305	DOTTreeGenerator gen = new DOTTreeGenerator();
2306	StringTemplate st = gen.toDOT(t);
2307	System.out.println(st);
2308
2309* Changed the way mark()/rewind() work in CommonTreeNode stream to mirror
2310  more flexible solution in ANTLRStringStream.  Forgot to set lastMarker
2311  anyway.  Now you can rewind to non-most-recent marker.
2312
2313December 12, 2006
2314
2315* Temp lexer now end in .gl (T__.gl, for example)
2316
2317* TreeParser suffix no longer generated for tree grammars
2318
2319* Defined reset for lexer, parser, tree parser; rewinds the input stream also
2320
2321December 10, 2006
2322
2323* Made Grammar.abortNFAToDFAConversion() abort in middle of a DFA.
2324
2325December 9, 2006
2326
2327* fixed bug in OrderedHashSet.add().  It didn't track elements correctly.
2328
2329December 6, 2006
2330
2331* updated build.xml for future Ant compatibility, thanks to Matt Benson.
2332
2333* various tests in TestRewriteTemplate and TestSyntacticPredicateEvaluation
2334  were using the old 'channel' vs. new '$channel' notation.
2335  TestInterpretedParsing didn't pick up an earlier change to CommonToken.
2336  Reported by Matt Benson.
2337
2338* fixed platform dependent test failures in TestTemplates, supplied by Matt
2339  Benson.
2340
2341November 29, 2006
2342
2343*  optimized semantic predicate evaluation so that p||!p yields true.
2344
2345November 22, 2006
2346
2347* fixed bug that prevented var = $rule.some_retval from working in anything
2348  but the first alternative of a rule or subrule.
2349
2350* attribute names containing digits were not allowed, this is now fixed,
2351  allowing attributes like 'name1' but not '1name1'.
2352
2353November 19, 2006
2354
2355* Removed LeftRecursionMessage and apparatus because it seems that I check
2356  for left recursion upfront before analysis and everything gets specified as
2357  recursion cycles at this point.
2358
2359November 16, 2006
2360
2361* TokenRewriteStream.replace was not passing programName to next method.
2362
2363November 15, 2006
2364
2365* updated DOT files for DFA generation to make smaller circles.
2366
2367* made epsilon edges italics in the NFA diagrams.
2368
23693.0b5 - November 15, 2006
2370
2371The biggest thing is that your grammar file names must match the grammar name
2372inside (your generated class names will also be different) and we use
2373$channel=HIDDEN now instead of channel=99 inside lexer actions.
2374Should be compatible other than that.   Please look at complete list of
2375changes.
2376
2377November 14, 2006
2378
2379* Force token index to be -1 for CommonIndex in case not set.
2380
2381November 11, 2006
2382
2383* getUniqueID for TreeAdaptor now uses identityHashCode instead of hashCode.
2384
2385November 10, 2006
2386
2387* No grammar nondeterminism warning now when wildcard '.' is final alt.
2388  Examples:
2389
2390	a : A | B | . ;
2391
2392	A : 'a'
2393	  | .
2394	  ;
2395
2396	SL_COMMENT
2397	    : '//' (options {greedy=false;} : .)* '\r'? '\n'
2398	    ;
2399
2400	SL_COMMENT2
2401	    : '//' (options {greedy=false;} : 'x'|.)* '\r'? '\n'
2402	    ;
2403
2404
2405November 8, 2006
2406
2407* Syntactic predicates did not get hoisting properly upon non-LL(*) decision.  Other hoisting issues fixed.  Cleaned up code.
2408
2409* Removed failsafe that check to see if I'm spending too much time on a single DFA; I don't think we need it anymore.
2410
2411November 3, 2006
2412
2413* $text, $line, etc... were not working in assignments. Fixed and added
2414  test case.
2415
2416* $label.text translated to label.getText in lexer even if label was on a char
2417
2418November 2, 2006
2419
2420* Added error if you don't specify what the AST type is; actions in tree
2421  grammar won't work without it.
2422
2423  $ cat x.g
2424  tree grammar x;
2425  a : ID {String s = $ID.text;} ;
2426
2427  ANTLR Parser Generator   Early Access Version 3.0b5 (??, 2006)  1989-2006
2428  error: x.g:0:0: (152) tree grammar x has no ASTLabelType option
2429
2430November 1, 2006
2431
2432* $text, $line, etc... were not working properly within lexer rule.
2433
2434October 32, 2006
2435
2436* Finally actions now execute before dynamic scopes are popped it in the
2437  rule. Previously was not possible to access the rules scoped variables
2438  in a finally action.
2439
2440October 29, 2006
2441
2442* Altered ActionTranslator to emit errors on setting read-only attributes
2443  such as $start, $stop, $text in a rule. Also forbid setting any attributes
2444  in rules/tokens referenced by a label or name.
2445  Setting dynamic scopes's attributes and your own parameter attributes
2446  is legal.
2447
2448October 27, 2006
2449
2450* Altered how ANTLR figures out what decision is associated with which
2451  block of grammar.  Makes ANTLRWorks correctly find DFA for a block.
2452
2453October 26, 2006
2454
2455* Fixed bug where EOT transitions led to no NFA configs in a DFA state,
2456  yielding an error in DFA table generation.
2457
2458* renamed action.g to ActionTranslator.g
2459  the ActionTranslator class is now called ActionTranslatorLexer, as ANTLR
2460  generates this classname now. Fixed rest of codebase accordingly.
2461
2462* added rules recognizing setting of scopes' attributes to ActionTranslator.g
2463  the Objective C target needed access to the right-hand side of the assignment
2464  in order to generate correct code
2465
2466* changed ANTLRCore.sti to reflect the new mandatory templates to support the above
2467  namely: scopeSetAttributeRef, returnSetAttributeRef and the ruleSetPropertyRef_*
2468  templates, with the exception of ruleSetPropertyRef_text. we cannot set this attribute
2469
2470October 19, 2006
2471
2472* Fixed 2 bugs in DFA conversion that caused exceptions.
2473  altered functionality of getMinElement so it ignores elements<0.
2474
2475October 18, 2006
2476
2477* moved resetStateNumbersToBeContiguous() to after issuing of warnings;
2478  an internal error in that routine should make more sense as issues
2479  with decision will appear first.
2480
2481* fixed cut/paste bug I introduced when fixed EOF in min/max
2482  bug. Prevented C grammar from working briefly.
2483
2484October 17, 2006
2485
2486* Removed a failsafe that seems to be unnecessary that ensure DFA didn't
2487  get too big.  It was resulting in some failures in code generation that
2488  led me on quite a strange debugging trip.
2489
2490October 16, 2006
2491
2492* Use channel=HIDDEN not channel=99 to put tokens on hidden channel.
2493
2494October 12, 2006
2495
2496* ANTLR now has a customizable message format for errors and warnings,
2497  to make it easier to fulfill requirements by IDEs and such.
2498  The format to be used can be specified via the '-message-format name'
2499  command line switch. The default for name is 'antlr', also available
2500  at the moment is 'gnu'. This is done via StringTemplate, for details
2501  on the requirements look in org/antlr/tool/templates/messages/formats/
2502
2503* line numbers for lexers in combined grammars are now reported correctly.
2504
2505September 29, 2006
2506
2507* ANTLRReaderStream improperly checked for end of input.
2508
2509September 28, 2006
2510
2511* For ANTLRStringStream, LA(-1) was off by one...gave you LA(-2).
2512
25133.0b4 - August 24, 2006
2514
2515* error when no rules in grammar.  doesn't crash now.
2516
2517* Token is now an interface.
2518
2519* remove dependence on non runtime classes in runtime package.
2520
2521* filename and grammar name must be same Foo in Foo.g.  Generates FooParser,
2522  FooLexer, ...  Combined grammar Foo generates Foo$Lexer.g which generates
2523  FooLexer.java.  tree grammars generate FooTreeParser.java
2524
2525August 24, 2006
2526
2527* added C# target to lib, codegen, templates
2528
2529August 11, 2006
2530
2531* added tree arg to navigation methods in treeadaptor
2532
2533August 07, 2006
2534
2535* fixed bug related to (a|)+ on end of lexer rules.  crashed instead
2536  of warning.
2537
2538* added warning that interpreter doesn't do synpreds yet
2539
2540* allow different source of classloader:
2541ClassLoader cl = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
2542if ( cl==null ) {
2543    cl = this.getClass().getClassLoader();
2544}
2545
2546
2547July 26, 2006
2548
2549* compressed DFA edge tables significantly.  All edge tables are
2550  unique. The transition table can reuse arrays.  Look like this now:
2551
2552     public static readonly DFA30_transition0 =
2553     	new short[] { 46, 46, -1, 46, 46, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,...};
2554         public static readonly DFA30_transition1 =
2555     	new short[] { 21 };
2556      public static readonly short[][] DFA30_transition = {
2557     	  DFA30_transition0,
2558     	  DFA30_transition0,
2559     	  DFA30_transition1,
2560     	  ...
2561      };
2562
2563* If you defined both a label like EQ and '=', sometimes the '=' was
2564  used instead of the EQ label.
2565
2566* made headerFile template have same arg list as outputFile for consistency
2567
2568* outputFile, lexer, genericParser, parser, treeParser templates
2569  reference cyclicDFAs attribute which was no longer used after I
2570  started the new table-based DFA.  I made cyclicDFADescriptors
2571  argument to outputFile and headerFile (only).  I think this is
2572  correct as only OO languages will want the DFA in the recognizer.
2573  At the top level, C and friends can use it.  Changed name to use
2574  cyclicDFAs again as it's a better name probably.  Removed parameter
2575  from the lexer, ...  For example, my parser template says this now:
2576
2577    <cyclicDFAs:cyclicDFA()> <! dump tables for all DFA !>
2578
2579* made all token ref token types go thru code gen's
2580  getTokenTypeAsTargetLabel()
2581
2582* no more computing DFA transition tables for acyclic DFA.
2583
2584July 25, 2006
2585
2586* fixed a place where I was adding syn predicates into rewrite stuff.
2587
2588* turned off invalid token index warning in AW support; had a problem.
2589
2590* bad location event generated with -debug for synpreds in autobacktrack mode.
2591
2592July 24, 2006
2593
2594* changed runtime.DFA so that it treats all chars and token types as
2595  char (unsigned 16 bit int).  -1 becomes '\uFFFF' then or 65535.
2596
2597* changed MAX_STATE_TRANSITIONS_FOR_TABLE to be 65534 by default
2598  now. This means that all states can use a table to do transitions.
2599
2600* was not making synpreds on (C)* type loops with backtrack=true
2601
2602* was copying tree stuff and actions into synpreds with backtrack=true
2603
2604* was making synpreds on even single alt rules / blocks with backtrack=true
2605
26063.0b3 - July 21, 2006
2607
2608* ANTLR fails to analyze complex decisions much less frequently.  It
2609  turns out that the set of decisions for which ANTLR fails (times
2610  out) is the same set (so far) of non-LL(*) decisions.  Morever, I'm
2611  able to detect this situation quickly and report rather than timing
2612  out. Errors look like:
2613
2614  java.g:468:23: [fatal] rule concreteDimensions has non-LL(*)
2615    decision due to recursive rule invocations in alts 1,2.  Resolve
2616    by left-factoring or using syntactic predicates with fixed k
2617    lookahead or use backtrack=true option.
2618
2619  This message only appears when k=*.
2620
2621* Shortened no viable alt messages to not include decision
2622  description:
2623
2624[compilationUnit, declaration]: line 8:8 decision=<<67:1: declaration
2625: ( ( fieldDeclaration )=> fieldDeclaration | ( methodDeclaration )=>
2626methodDeclaration | ( constructorDeclaration )=>
2627constructorDeclaration | ( classDeclaration )=> classDeclaration | (
2628interfaceDeclaration )=> interfaceDeclaration | ( blockDeclaration )=>
2629blockDeclaration | emptyDeclaration );>> state 3 (decision=14) no
2630viable alt; token=[@1,184:187='java',<122>,8:8]
2631
2632  too long and hard to read.
2633
2634July 19, 2006
2635
2636* Code gen bug: states with no emanating edges were ignored by ST.
2637  Now an empty list is used.
2638
2639* Added grammar parameter to recognizer templates so they can access
2640  properties like getName(), ...
2641
2642July 10, 2006
2643
2644* Fixed the gated pred merged state bug.  Added unit test.
2645
2646* added new method to Target: getTokenTypeAsTargetLabel()
2647
2648July 7, 2006
2649
2650* I was doing an AND instead of OR in the gated predicate stuff.
2651  Thanks to Stephen Kou!
2652
2653* Reduce op for combining predicates was insanely slow sometimes and
2654  didn't actually work well.  Now it's fast and works.
2655
2656* There is a bug in merging of DFA stop states related to gated
2657  preds...turned it off for now.
2658
26593.0b2 - July 5, 2006
2660
2661July 5, 2006
2662
2663* token emission not properly protected in lexer filter mode.
2664
2665* EOT, EOT DFA state transition tables should be init'd to -1 (only
2666  was doing this for compressed tables).  Fixed.
2667
2668* in trace mode, exit method not shown for memoized rules
2669
2670* added -Xmaxdfaedges to allow you to increase number of edges allowed
2671  for a single DFA state before it becomes "special" and can't fit in
2672  a simple table.
2673
2674* Bug in tables.  Short are signed so min/max tables for DFA are now
2675  char[].  Bizarre.
2676
2677July 3, 2006
2678
2679* Added a method to reset the tool error state for current thread.
2680  See ErrorManager.java
2681
2682* [Got this working properly today] backtrack mode that let's you type
2683  in any old crap and ANTLR will backtrack if it can't figure out what
2684  you meant.  No errors are reported by antlr during analysis.  It
2685  implicitly adds a syn pred in front of every production, using them
2686  only if static grammar LL(*) analysis fails.  Syn pred code is not
2687  generated if the pred is not used in a decision.
2688
2689  This is essentially a rapid prototyping mode.
2690
2691* Added backtracking report to the -report option
2692
2693* Added NFA->DFA conversion early termination report to the -report option
2694
2695* Added grammar level k and backtrack options to -report
2696
2697* Added a dozen unit tests to test autobacktrack NFA construction.
2698
2699* If you are using filter mode, you must manually use option
2700  memoize=true now.
2701
2702July 2, 2006
2703
2704* Added k=* option so you can set k=2, for example, on whole grammar,
2705  but an individual decision can be LL(*).
2706
2707* memoize option for grammars, rules, blocks.  Remove -nomemo cmd-line option
2708
2709* but in DOT generator for DFA; fixed.
2710
2711* runtime.DFA reported errors even when backtracking
2712
2713July 1, 2006
2714
2715* Added -X option list to help
2716
2717* Syn preds were being hoisted into other rules, causing lots of extra
2718  backtracking.
2719
2720June 29, 2006
2721
2722* unnecessary files removed during build.
2723
2724* Matt Benson updated build.xml
2725
2726* Detecting use of synpreds in analysis now instead of codegen.  In
2727  this way, I can avoid analyzing decisions in synpreds for synpreds
2728  not used in a DFA for a real rule.  This is used to optimize things
2729  for backtrack option.
2730
2731* Code gen must add _fragment or whatever to end of pred name in
2732  template synpredRule to avoid having ANTLR know anything about
2733  method names.
2734
2735* Added -IdbgST option to emit ST delimiters at start/stop of all
2736  templates spit out.
2737
2738June 28, 2006
2739
2740* Tweaked message when ANTLR cannot handle analysis.
2741
27423.0b1 - June 27, 2006
2743
2744June 24, 2006
2745
2746* syn preds no longer generate little static classes; they also don't
2747  generate a whole bunch of extra crap in the rules built to test syn
2748  preds.  Removed GrammarFragmentPointer class from runtime.
2749
2750June 23-24, 2006
2751
2752* added output option to -report output.
2753
2754* added profiling info:
2755  Number of rule invocations in "guessing" mode
2756  number of rule memoization cache hits
2757  number of rule memoization cache misses
2758
2759* made DFA DOT diagrams go left to right not top to bottom
2760
2761* I try to recursive overflow states now by resolving these states
2762  with semantic/syntactic predicates if they exist.  The DFA is then
2763  deterministic rather than simply resolving by choosing first
2764  nondeterministic alt.  I used to generated errors:
2765
2766~/tmp $ java org.antlr.Tool -dfa t.g
2767ANTLR Parser Generator   Early Access Version 3.0b2 (July 5, 2006)  1989-2006
2768t.g:2:5: Alternative 1: after matching input such as A A A A A decision cannot predict what comes next due to recursion overflow to b from b
2769t.g:2:5: Alternative 2: after matching input such as A A A A A decision cannot predict what comes next due to recursion overflow to b from b
2770
2771  Now, I uses predicates if available and emits no warnings.
2772
2773* made sem preds share accept states.  Previously, multiple preds in a
2774decision forked new accepts each time for each nondet state.
2775
2776June 19, 2006
2777
2778* Need parens around the prediction expressions in templates.
2779
2780* Referencing $ID.text in an action forced bad code gen in lexer rule ID.
2781
2782* Fixed a bug in how predicates are collected.  The definition of
2783  "last predicated alternative" was incorrect in the analysis.  Further,
2784  gated predicates incorrectly missed a case where an edge should become
2785  true (a tautology).
2786
2787* Removed an unnecessary input.consume() reference in the runtime/DFA class.
2788
2789June 14, 2006
2790
2791* -> ($rulelabel)? didn't generate proper code for ASTs.
2792
2793* bug in code gen (did not compile)
2794a : ID -> ID
2795  | ID -> ID
2796  ;
2797Problem is repeated ref to ID from left side.  Juergen pointed this out.
2798
2799* use of tokenVocab with missing file yielded exception
2800
2801* (A|B)=> foo yielded an exception as (A|B) is a set not a block. Fixed.
2802
2803* Didn't set ID1= and INT1= for this alt:
2804  | ^(ID INT+ {System.out.print(\"^(\"+$ID+\" \"+$INT+\")\");})
2805
2806* Fixed so repeated dangling state errors only occur once like:
2807t.g:4:17: the decision cannot distinguish between alternative(s) 2,1 for at least one input sequence
2808
2809* tracking of rule elements was on (making list defs at start of
2810  method) with templates instead of just with ASTs.  Turned off.
2811
2812* Doesn't crash when you give it a missing file now.
2813
2814* -report: add output info: how many LL(1) decisions.
2815
2816June 13, 2006
2817
2818* ^(ROOT ID?) Didn't work; nor did any other nullable child list such as
2819  ^(ROOT ID* INT?).  Now, I check to see if child list is nullable using
2820  Grammar.LOOK() and, if so, I generate an "IF lookahead is DOWN" gate
2821  around the child list so the whole thing is optional.
2822
2823* Fixed a bug in LOOK that made it not look through nullable rules.
2824
2825* Using AST suffixes or -> rewrite syntax now gives an error w/o a grammar
2826  output option.  Used to crash ;)
2827
2828* References to EOF ended up with improper -1 refs instead of EOF in output.
2829
2830* didn't warn of ambig ref to $expr in rewrite; fixed.
2831list
2832     :	'[' expr 'for' type ID 'in' expr ']'
2833	-> comprehension(expr={$expr.st},type={},list={},i={})
2834	;
2835
2836June 12, 2006
2837
2838* EOF works in the parser as a token name.
2839
2840* Rule b:(A B?)*; didn't display properly in AW due to the way ANTLR
2841  generated NFA.
2842
2843* "scope x;" in a rule for unknown x gives no error.  Fixed.  Added unit test.
2844
2845* Label type for refs to start/stop in tree parser and other parsers were
2846  not used.  Lots of casting.  Ick. Fixed.
2847
2848* couldn't refer to $tokenlabel in isolation; but need so we can test if
2849  something was matched.  Fixed.
2850
2851* Lots of little bugs fixed in $x.y, %... translation due to new
2852  action translator.
2853
2854* Improperly tracking block nesting level; result was that you couldn't
2855  see $ID in action of rule "a : A+ | ID {Token t = $ID;} | C ;"
2856
2857* a : ID ID {$ID.text;} ; did not get a warning about ambiguous $ID ref.
2858
2859* No error was found on $COMMENT.text:
2860
2861COMMENT
2862    :   '/*' (options {greedy=false;} : . )* '*/'
2863        {System.out.println("found method "+$COMMENT.text);}
2864    ;
2865
2866  $enclosinglexerrule scope does not exist.  Use text or setText() here.
2867
2868June 11, 2006
2869
2870* Single return values are initialized now to default or to your spec.
2871
2872* cleaned up input stream stuff.  Added ANTLRReaderStream, ANTLRInputStream
2873  and refactored.  You can specify encodings now on ANTLRFileStream (and
2874  ANTLRInputStream) now.
2875
2876* You can set text local var now in a lexer rule and token gets that text.
2877  start/stop indexes are still set for the token.
2878
2879* Changed lexer slightly.  Calling a nonfragment rule from a
2880  nonfragment rule does not set the overall token.
2881
2882June 10, 2006
2883
2884* Fixed bug where unnecessary escapes yield char==0 like '\{'.
2885
2886* Fixed analysis bug.  This grammar didn't report a recursion warning:
2887x   : y X
2888    | y Y
2889    ;
2890y   : L y R
2891    | B
2892    ;
2893  The DFAState.equals() method was messed up.
2894
2895* Added @synpredgate {...} action so you can tell ANTLR how to gate actions
2896  in/out during syntactic predicate evaluation.
2897
2898* Fuzzy parsing should be more efficient.  It should backtrack over a rule
2899  and then rewind and do it again "with feeling" to exec actions.  It was
2900  actually doing it 3x not 2x.
2901
2902June 9, 2006
2903
2904* Gutted and rebuilt the action translator for $x.y, $x::y, ...
2905  Uses ANTLR v3 now for the first time inside v3 source. :)
2906  ActionTranslator.java
2907
2908* Fixed a bug where referencing a return value on a rule didn't work
2909  because later a ref to that rule's predefined properties didn't
2910  properly force a return value struct to be built.  Added unit test.
2911
2912June 6, 2006
2913
2914* New DFA mechanisms.  Cyclic DFA are implemented as state tables,
2915  encoded via strings as java cannot handle large static arrays :(
2916  States with edges emanating that have predicates are specially
2917  treated.  A method is generated to do these states.  The DFA
2918  simulation routine uses the "special" array to figure out if the
2919  state is special.  See March 25, 2006 entry for description:
2920  http://www.antlr.org/blog/antlr3/codegen.tml.  analysis.DFA now has
2921  all the state tables generated for code gen.  CyclicCodeGenerator.java
2922  disappeared as it's unneeded code. :)
2923
2924* Internal general clean up of the DFA.states vs uniqueStates thing.
2925  Fixed lookahead decisions no longer fill uniqueStates.  Waste of
2926  time.  Also noted that when adding sem pred edges, I didn't check
2927  for state reuse.  Fixed.
2928
2929June 4, 2006
2930
2931* When resolving ambig DFA states predicates, I did not add the new states
2932  to the list of unique DFA states.  No observable effect on output except
2933  that DFA state numbers were not always contiguous for predicated decisions.
2934  I needed this fix for new DFA tables.
2935
29363.0ea10 - June 2, 2006
2937
2938June 2, 2006
2939
2940* Improved grammar stats and added syntactic pred tracking.
2941
2942June 1, 2006
2943
2944* Due to a type mismatch, the DebugParser.recoverFromMismatchedToken()
2945  method was not called.  Debug events for mismatched token error
2946  notification were not sent to ANTLRWorks probably
2947
2948* Added getBacktrackingLevel() for any recognizer; needed for profiler.
2949
2950* Only writes profiling data for antlr grammar analysis with -profile set
2951
2952* Major update and bug fix to (runtime) Profiler.
2953
2954May 27, 2006
2955
2956* Added Lexer.skip() to force lexer to ignore current token and look for
2957  another; no token is created for current rule and is not passed on to
2958  parser (or other consumer of the lexer).
2959
2960* Parsers are much faster now.  I removed use of java.util.Stack for pushing
2961  follow sets and use a hardcoded array stack instead.  Dropped from
2962  5900ms to 3900ms for parse+lex time parsing entire java 1.4.2 source.  Lex
2963  time alone was about 1500ms.  Just looking at parse time, we get about 2x
2964  speed improvement. :)
2965
2966May 26, 2006
2967
2968* Fixed NFA construction so it generates NFA for (A*)* such that ANTLRWorks
2969  can display it properly.
2970
2971May 25, 2006
2972
2973* added abort method to Grammar so AW can terminate the conversion if it's
2974  taking too long.
2975
2976May 24, 2006
2977
2978* added method to get left recursive rules from grammar without doing full
2979  grammar analysis.
2980
2981* analysis, code gen not attempted if serious error (like
2982  left-recursion or missing rule definition) occurred while reading
2983  the grammar in and defining symbols.
2984
2985* added amazing optimization; reduces analysis time by 90% for java
2986  grammar; simple IF statement addition!
2987
29883.0ea9 - May 20, 2006
2989
2990* added global k value for grammar to limit lookahead for all decisions unless
2991overridden in a particular decision.
2992
2993* added failsafe so that any decision taking longer than 2 seconds to create
2994the DFA will fall back on k=1.  Use -ImaxtimeforDFA n (in ms) to set the time.
2995
2996* added an option (turned off for now) to use multiple threads to
2997perform grammar analysis.  Not much help on a 2-CPU computer as
2998garbage collection seems to peg the 2nd CPU already. :( Gotta wait for
2999a 4 CPU box ;)
3000
3001* switched from #src to // $ANTLR src directive.
3002
3003* CommonTokenStream.getTokens() looked past end of buffer sometimes. fixed.
3004
3005* unicode literals didn't really work in DOT output and generated code. fixed.
3006
3007* fixed the unit test rig so it compiles nicely with Java 1.5
3008
3009* Added ant build.xml file (reads build.properties file)
3010
3011* predicates sometimes failed to compile/eval properly due to missing (...)
3012  in IF expressions.  Forced (..)
3013
3014* (...)? with only one alt were not optimized.  Was:
3015
3016        // t.g:4:7: ( B )?
3017        int alt1=2;
3018        int LA1_0 = input.LA(1);
3019        if ( LA1_0==B ) {
3020            alt1=1;
3021        }
3022        else if ( LA1_0==-1 ) {
3023            alt1=2;
3024        }
3025        else {
3026            NoViableAltException nvae =
3027                new NoViableAltException("4:7: ( B )?", 1, 0, input);
3028            throw nvae;
3029        }
3030
3031is now:
3032
3033        // t.g:4:7: ( B )?
3034        int alt1=2;
3035        int LA1_0 = input.LA(1);
3036        if ( LA1_0==B ) {
3037            alt1=1;
3038        }
3039
3040  Smaller, faster and more readable.
3041
3042* Allow manual init of return values now:
3043  functionHeader returns [int x=3*4, char (*f)()=null] : ... ;
3044
3045* Added optimization for DFAs that fixed a codegen bug with rules in lexer:
3046   EQ			 : '=' ;
3047   ASSIGNOP		 : '=' | '+=' ;
3048  EQ is a subset of other rule.  It did not given an error which is
3049  correct, but generated bad code.
3050
3051* ANTLR was sending column not char position to ANTLRWorks.
3052
3053* Bug fix: location 0, 0 emitted for synpreds and empty alts.
3054
3055* debugging event handshake how sends grammar file name.  Added getGrammarFileName() to recognizers.  Java.stg generates it:
3056
3057    public String getGrammarFileName() { return "<fileName>"; }
3058
3059* tree parsers can do arbitrary lookahead now including backtracking.  I
3060  updated CommonTreeNodeStream.
3061
3062* added events for debugging tree parsers:
3063
3064	/** Input for a tree parser is an AST, but we know nothing for sure
3065	 *  about a node except its type and text (obtained from the adaptor).
3066	 *  This is the analog of the consumeToken method.  Again, the ID is
3067	 *  the hashCode usually of the node so it only works if hashCode is
3068	 *  not implemented.
3069	 */
3070	public void consumeNode(int ID, String text, int type);
3071
3072	/** The tree parser looked ahead */
3073	public void LT(int i, int ID, String text, int type);
3074
3075	/** The tree parser has popped back up from the child list to the
3076	 *  root node.
3077	 */
3078	public void goUp();
3079
3080	/** The tree parser has descended to the first child of a the current
3081	 *  root node.
3082	 */
3083	public void goDown();
3084
3085* Added DebugTreeNodeStream and DebugTreeParser classes
3086
3087* Added ctor because the debug tree node stream will need to ask quesitons about nodes and since  nodes are just Object, it needs an adaptor to decode the nodes and get text/type info for the debugger.
3088
3089public CommonTreeNodeStream(TreeAdaptor adaptor, Tree tree);
3090
3091* added getter to TreeNodeStream:
3092	public TreeAdaptor getTreeAdaptor();
3093
3094* Implemented getText/getType in CommonTreeAdaptor.
3095
3096* Added TraceDebugEventListener that can dump all events to stdout.
3097
3098* I broke down and make Tree implement getText
3099
3100* tree rewrites now gen location debug events.
3101
3102* added AST debug events to listener; added blank listener for convenience
3103
3104* updated debug events to send begin/end backtrack events for debugging
3105
3106* with a : (b->b) ('+' b -> ^(PLUS $a b))* ; you get b[0] each time as
3107  there is no loop in rewrite rule itself.  Need to know context that
3108  the -> is inside the rule and hence b means last value of b not all
3109  values.
3110
3111* Bug in TokenRewriteStream; ops at indexes < start index blocked proper op.
3112
3113* Actions in ST rewrites "-> ({$op})()" were not translated
3114
3115* Added new action name:
3116
3117@rulecatch {
3118catch (RecognitionException re) {
3119    reportError(re);
3120    recover(input,re);
3121}
3122catch (Throwable t) {
3123    System.err.println(t);
3124}
3125}
3126Overrides rule catch stuff.
3127
3128* Isolated $ refs caused exception
3129
31303.0ea8 - March 11, 2006
3131
3132* added @finally {...} action like @init for rules.  Executes in
3133  finally block (java target) after all other stuff like rule memoization.
3134  No code changes needs; ST just refs a new action:
3135      <ruleDescriptor.actions.finally>
3136
3137* hideous bug fixed: PLUS='+' didn't result in '+' rule in lexer
3138
3139* TokenRewriteStream didn't do toString() right when no rewrites had been done.
3140
3141* lexer errors in interpreter were not printed properly
3142
3143* bitsets are dumped in hex not decimal now for FOLLOW sets
3144
3145* /* epsilon */ is not printed now when printing out grammars with empty alts
3146
3147* Fixed another bug in tree rewrite stuff where it was checking that elements
3148  had at least one element.  Strange...commented out for now to see if I can remember what's up.
3149
3150* Tree rewrites had problems when you didn't have x+=FOO variables.  Rules
3151  like this work now:
3152
3153  a : (x=ID)? y=ID -> ($x $y)?;
3154
3155* filter=true for lexers turns on k=1 and backtracking for every token
3156  alternative.  Put the rules in priority order.
3157
3158* added getLine() etc... to Tree to support better error reporting for
3159  trees.  Added MismatchedTreeNodeException.
3160
3161* $templates::foo() is gone.  added % as special template symbol.
3162  %foo(a={},b={},...) ctor (even shorter than $templates::foo(...))
3163  %({name-expr})(a={},...) indirect template ctor reference
3164
3165  The above are parsed by antlr.g and translated by codegen.g
3166  The following are parsed manually here:
3167
3168  %{string-expr} anonymous template from string expr
3169  %{expr}.y = z; template attribute y of StringTemplate-typed expr to z
3170  %x.y = z; set template attribute y of x (always set never get attr)
3171            to z [languages like python without ';' must still use the
3172            ';' which the code generator is free to remove during code gen]
3173
3174* -> ({expr})(a={},...) notation for indirect template rewrite.
3175  expr is the name of the template.
3176
3177* $x[i]::y and $x[-i]::y notation for accesssing absolute scope stack
3178  indexes and relative negative scopes.  $x[-1]::y is the y attribute
3179  of the previous scope (stack top - 1).
3180
3181* filter=true mode for lexers; can do this now...upon mismatch, just
3182  consumes a char and tries again:
3183lexer grammar FuzzyJava;
3184options {filter=true;}
3185
3186FIELD
3187    :   TYPE WS? name=ID WS? (';'|'=')
3188        {System.out.println("found var "+$name.text);}
3189    ;
3190
3191* refactored char streams so ANTLRFileStream is now a subclass of
3192  ANTLRStringStream.
3193
3194* char streams for lexer now allowed nested backtracking in lexer.
3195
3196* added TokenLabelType for lexer/parser for all token labels
3197
3198* line numbers for error messages were not updated properly in antlr.g
3199  for strings, char literals and <<...>>
3200
3201* init action in lexer rules was before the type,start,line,... decls.
3202
3203* Tree grammars can now specify output; I've only tested output=templat
3204  though.
3205
3206* You can reference EOF now in the parser and lexer.  It's just token type
3207  or char value -1.
3208
3209* Bug fix: $ID refs in the *lexer* were all messed up.  Cleaned up the
3210  set of properties available...
3211
3212* Bug fix: .st not found in rule ref when rule has scope:
3213field
3214scope {
3215	StringTemplate funcDef;
3216}
3217    :   ...
3218	{$field::funcDef = $field.st;}
3219    ;
3220it gets field_stack.st instead
3221
3222* return in backtracking must return retval or null if return value.
3223
3224* $property within a rule now works like $text, $st, ...
3225
3226* AST/Template Rewrites were not gated by backtracking==0 so they
3227  executed even when guessing.  Auto AST construction is now gated also.
3228
3229* CommonTokenStream was somehow returning tokens not text in toString()
3230
3231* added useful methods to runtime.BitSet and also to CommonToken so you can
3232  update the text.  Added nice Token stream method:
3233
3234  /** Given a start and stop index, return a List of all tokens in
3235   *  the token type BitSet.  Return null if no tokens were found.  This
3236   *  method looks at both on and off channel tokens.
3237   */
3238  public List getTokens(int start, int stop, BitSet types);
3239
3240* literals are now passed in the .tokens files so you can ref them in
3241  tree parses, for example.
3242
3243* added basic exception handling; no labels, just general catches:
3244
3245a : {;}A | B ;
3246        exception
3247                catch[RecognitionException re] {
3248                        System.out.println("recog error");
3249                }
3250                catch[Exception e] {
3251                        System.out.println("error");
3252                }
3253
3254* Added method to TokenStream:
3255  public String toString(Token start, Token stop);
3256
3257* antlr generates #src lines in lexer grammars generated from combined grammars
3258  so error messages refer to original file.
3259
3260* lexers generated from combined grammars now use originally formatting.
3261
3262* predicates have $x.y stuff translated now.  Warning: predicates might be
3263  hoisted out of context.
3264
3265* return values in return val structs are now public.
3266
3267* output=template with return values on rules was broken.  I assume return values with ASTs was broken too.  Fixed.
3268
32693.0ea7 - December 14, 2005
3270
3271* Added -print option to print out grammar w/o actions
3272
3273* Renamed BaseParser to be BaseRecognizer and even made Lexer derive from
3274  this; nice as it now shares backtracking support code.
3275
3276* Added syntactic predicates (...)=>.  See December 4, 2005 entry:
3277
3278  http://www.antlr.org/blog/antlr3/lookahead.tml
3279
3280  Note that we have a new option for turning off rule memoization during
3281  backtracking:
3282
3283  -nomemo        when backtracking don't generate memoization code
3284
3285* Predicates are now tested in order that you specify the alts.  If you
3286  leave the last alt "naked" (w/o pred), it will assume a true pred rather
3287  than union of other preds.
3288
3289* Added gated predicates "{p}?=>" that literally turn off a production whereas
3290disambiguating predicates are only hoisted into the predictor when syntax alone
3291is not sufficient to uniquely predict alternatives.
3292
3293A : {p}?  => "a" ;
3294B : {!p}? => ("a"|"b")+ ;
3295
3296* bug fixed related to predicates in predictor
3297lexer grammar w;
3298A : {p}? "a" ;
3299B : {!p}? ("a"|"b")+ ;
3300DFA is correct.  A state splits for input "a" on the pred.
3301Generated code though was hosed.  No pred tests in prediction code!
3302I added testLexerPreds() and others in TestSemanticPredicateEvaluation.java
3303
3304* added execAction template in case we want to do something in front of
3305  each action execution or something.
3306
3307* left-recursive cycles from rules w/o decisions were not detected.
3308
3309* undefined lexer rules were not announced! fixed.
3310
3311* unreachable messages for Tokens rule now indicate rule name not alt. E.g.,
3312
3313  Ruby.lexer.g:24:1: The following token definitions are unreachable: IVAR
3314
3315* nondeterminism warnings improved for Tokens rule:
3316
3317Ruby.lexer.g:10:1: Multiple token rules can match input such as ""0".."9"": INT, FLOAT
3318As a result, tokens(s) FLOAT were disabled for that input
3319
3320
3321* DOT diagrams didn't show escaped char properly.
3322
3323* Char/string literals are now all 'abc' not "abc".
3324
3325* action syntax changed "@scope::actionname {action}" where scope defaults
3326  to "parser" if parser grammar or combined grammar, "lexer" if lexer grammar,
3327  and "treeparser" if tree grammar.  The code generation targets decide
3328  what scopes are available.  Each "scope" yields a hashtable for use in
3329  the output templates.  The scopes full of actions are sent to all output
3330  file templates (currently headerFile and outputFile) as attribute actions.
3331  Then you can reference <actions.scope> to get the map of actions associated
3332  with scope and <actions.parser.header> to get the parser's header action
3333  for example.  This should be very flexible.  The target should only have
3334  to define which scopes are valid, but the action names should be variable
3335  so we don't have to recompile ANTLR to add actions to code gen templates.
3336
3337  grammar T;
3338  options {language=Java;}
3339  @header { package foo; }
3340  @parser::stuff { int i; } // names within scope not checked; target dependent
3341  @members { int i; }
3342  @lexer::header {head}
3343  @lexer::members { int j; }
3344  @headerfile::blort {...} // error: this target doesn't have headerfile
3345  @treeparser::members {...} // error: this is not a tree parser
3346  a
3347  @init {int i;}
3348    : ID
3349    ;
3350  ID : 'a'..'z';
3351
3352  For now, the Java target uses members and header as a valid name.  Within a
3353  rule, the init action name is valid.
3354
3355* changed $dynamicscope.value to $dynamicscope::value even if value is defined
3356  in same rule such as $function::name where rule function defines name.
3357
3358* $dynamicscope gets you the stack
3359
3360* rule scopes go like this now:
3361
3362  rule
3363  scope {...}
3364  scope slist,Symbols;
3365  	: ...
3366	;
3367
3368* Created RuleReturnScope as a generic rule return value.  Makes it easier
3369  to do this:
3370    RuleReturnScope r = parser.program();
3371    System.out.println(r.getTemplate().toString());
3372
3373* $template, $tree, $start, etc...
3374
3375* $r.x in current rule.  $r is ignored as fully-qualified name. $r.start works too
3376
3377* added warning about $r referring to both return value of rule and dynamic scope of rule
3378
3379* integrated StringTemplate in a very simple manner
3380
3381Syntax:
3382-> template(arglist) "..."
3383-> template(arglist) <<...>>
3384-> namedTemplate(arglist)
3385-> {free expression}
3386-> // empty
3387
3388Predicate syntax:
3389a : A B -> {p1}? foo(a={$A.text})
3390        -> {p2}? foo(a={$B.text})
3391        -> // return nothing
3392
3393An arg list is just a list of template attribute assignments to actions in curlies.
3394
3395There is a setTemplateLib() method for you to use with named template rewrites.
3396
3397Use a new option:
3398
3399grammar t;
3400options {output=template;}
3401...
3402
3403This all should work for tree grammars too, but I'm still testing.
3404
3405* fixed bugs where strings were improperly escaped in exceptions, comments, etc..  For example, newlines came out as newlines not the escaped version
3406
34073.0ea6 - November 13, 2005
3408
3409* turned off -debug/-profile, which was on by default
3410
3411* completely refactored the output templates; added some missing templates.
3412
3413* dramatically improved infinite recursion error messages (actually
3414  left-recursion never even was printed out before).
3415
3416* wasn't printing dangling state messages when it reanalyzes with k=1.
3417
3418* fixed a nasty bug in the analysis engine dealing with infinite recursion.
3419  Spent all day thinking about it and cleaned up the code dramatically.
3420  Bug fixed and software is more powerful and I understand it better! :)
3421
3422* improved verbose DFA nodes; organized by alt
3423
3424* got much better random phrase generation.  For example:
3425
3426 $ java org.antlr.tool.RandomPhrase simple.g program
3427 int Ktcdn ';' method wh '(' ')' '{' return 5 ';' '}'
3428
3429* empty rules like "a : ;" generated code that didn't compile due to
3430  try/catch for RecognitionException.  Generated code couldn't possibly
3431  throw that exception.
3432
3433* when printing out a grammar, such as in comments in generated code,
3434  ANTLR didn't print ast suffix stuff back out for literals.
3435
3436* This never exited loop:
3437  DATA : (options {greedy=false;}: .* '\n' )* '\n' '.' ;
3438  and now it works due to new default nongreedy .*  Also this works:
3439  DATA : (options {greedy=false;}: .* '\n' )* '.' ;
3440
3441* Dot star ".*" syntax didn't work; in lexer it is nongreedy by
3442  default.  In parser it is on greedy but also k=1 by default.  Added
3443  unit tests.  Added blog entry to describe.
3444
3445* ~T where T is the only token yielded an empty set but no error
3446
3447* Used to generate unreachable message here:
3448
3449  parser grammar t;
3450  a : ID a
3451    | ID
3452    ;
3453
3454  z.g:3:11: The following alternatives are unreachable: 2
3455
3456  In fact it should really be an error; now it generates:
3457
3458  no start rule in grammar t (no rule can obviously be followed by EOF)
3459
3460  Per next change item, ANTLR cannot know that EOF follows rule 'a'.
3461
3462* added error message indicating that ANTLR can't figure out what your
3463  start rule is.  Required to properly generate code in some cases.
3464
3465* validating semantic predicates now work (if they are false, they
3466  throw a new FailedPredicateException
3467
3468* two hideous bug fixes in the IntervalSet, which made analysis go wrong
3469  in a few cases.  Thanks to Oliver Zeigermann for finding lots of bugs
3470  and making suggested fixes (including the next two items)!
3471
3472* cyclic DFAs are now nonstatic and hence can access instance variables
3473
3474* labels are now allowed on lexical elements (in the lexer)
3475
3476* added some internal debugging options
3477
3478* ~'a'* and ~('a')* were not working properly; refactored antlr.g grammar
3479
34803.0ea5 - July 5, 2005
3481
3482* Using '\n' in a parser grammar resulted in a nonescaped version of '\n' in the token names table making compilation fail.  I fixed this by reorganizing/cleaning up portion of ANTLR that deals with literals.  See comment org.antlr.codegen.Target.
3483
3484* Target.getMaxCharValue() did not use the appropriate max value constant.
3485
3486* ALLCHAR was a constant when it should use the Target max value def.  set complement for wildcard also didn't use the Target def.  Generally cleaned up the max char value stuff.
3487
3488* Code gen didn't deal with ASTLabelType properly...I think even the 3.0ea7 example tree parser was broken! :(
3489
3490* Added a few more unit tests dealing with escaped literals
3491
34923.0ea4 - June 29, 2005
3493
3494* tree parsers work; added CommonTreeNodeStream.  See simplecTreeParser
3495  example in examples-v3 tarball.
3496
3497* added superClass and ASTLabelType options
3498
3499* refactored Parser to have a BaseParser and added TreeParser
3500
3501* bug fix: actions being dumped in description strings; compile errors
3502  resulted
3503
35043.0ea3 - June 23, 2005
3505
3506Enhancements
3507
3508* Automatic tree construction operators are in: ! ^ ^^
3509
3510* Tree construction rewrite rules are in
3511	-> {pred1}? rewrite1
3512	-> {pred2}? rewrite2
3513	...
3514	-> rewriteN
3515
3516  The rewrite rules may be elements like ID, expr, $label, {node expr}
3517  and trees ^( <root> <children> ).  You have have (...)?, (...)*, (...)+
3518  subrules as well.
3519
3520  You may have rewrites in subrules not just at outer level of rule, but
3521  any -> rewrite forces auto AST construction off for that alternative
3522  of that rule.
3523
3524  To avoid cycles, copy semantics are used:
3525
3526  r : INT -> INT INT ;
3527
3528  means make two new nodes from the same INT token.
3529
3530  Repeated references to a rule element implies a copy for at least one
3531  tree:
3532
3533  a : atom -> ^(atom atom) ; // NOT CYCLE! (dup atom tree)
3534
3535* $ruleLabel.tree refers to tree created by matching the labeled element.
3536
3537* A description of the blocks/alts is generated as a comment in output code
3538
3539* A timestamp / signature is put at top of each generated code file
3540
35413.0ea2 - June 12, 2005
3542
3543Bug fixes
3544
3545* Some error messages were missing the stackTrace parameter
3546
3547* Removed the file locking mechanism as it's not cross platform
3548
3549* Some absolute vs relative path name problems with writing output
3550  files.  Rules are now more concrete.  -o option takes precedence
3551  // -o /tmp /var/lib/t.g => /tmp/T.java
3552  // -o subdir/output /usr/lib/t.g => subdir/output/T.java
3553  // -o . /usr/lib/t.g => ./T.java
3554  // -o /tmp subdir/t.g => /tmp/subdir/t.g
3555  // If they didn't specify a -o dir so just write to location
3556  // where grammar is, absolute or relative
3557
3558* does error checking on unknown option names now
3559
3560* Using just language code not locale name for error message file.  I.e.,
3561  the default (and for any English speaking locale) is en.stg not en_US.stg
3562  anymore.
3563
3564* The error manager now asks the Tool to panic rather than simply doing
3565  a System.exit().
3566
3567* Lots of refactoring concerning grammar, rule, subrule options.  Now
3568  detects invalid options.
3569
35703.0ea1 - June 1, 2005
3571
3572Initial early access release
3573