How to remove the ambiguous and infinite left recursion?

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Posted 12 years ago by Peter Luo - AIMNEXT
Version: 12.1.0560
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Hi,

I'm writting a C99 grammar according to a EBNF which I got it from the network.

 After I completed it and load it, there are a lot of ambiguous and infinite left recursion errors.

I have modified some, but I have no idea to others.

Can you give the general train of thought to resolve these problems? Like define more non-terminals or...

Thanks a lot!

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Answer - Posted 12 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Hi Peter,

For ambiguities, you can do look-aheads with our grammar framework via the use of CanMatch callbacks.  Our LL(*) Parser Framework documentation has coverage of that, and even shows an example or two of removing left recursion.

You also might find a lot of articles on the web about removing left recursion in EBNF since that's a common question.  I believe this Wikipedia article includes some info but any good book on parsing techniques should also have more extensive info.


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The latest build of this product (v24.1.2) was released 1 days ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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