RE: [cdt-dev] questions about OffsetLimitReachedException

[John Camelon <jcamelon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe that this is legacy hangover of the having the 2 different
parsers (core vs. dom).

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You know, to be honest, I can't remember. I'd check with the author of the
exception class, although I think is memory is fading as well.

Doug Schaefer, QNX Software Systems
Eclipse CDT Project Lead, http://cdtdoug.blogspot.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Mike Kucera
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 5:34 PM
> To: CDT General developers list.
> Subject: [cdt-dev] questions about OffsetLimitReachedException
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to improve my integration with CPreprocessor and I have some
> questions for you parser folks.
>
> What causes an OffsetLimitReachedException and how should it be handled?
> I'm guessing that this exception is thrown when content assist is invoked
> in a difficult context. I'm not really understanding what the DOM parser
> is
> doing to handle this exception. It appears to create a completion node
and
> then just quit parsing. No names are added to the completion node so it
> looks like its not linked into the AST.
>
> Whats really going on here? Can anyone give me a code example where
> content
> assist triggers an OLRE and what the results are? There doesn't appear to
> be any JUnits that directly test for OLRE being thrown at certain points.
>
>  I need to figure out how to handle this in a bottom-up parser as the
> parser can't just exit at any point. I use EOC tokens to "unwind" the
> parse
> after a completion token is encountered, would it be appropriate to
handle
> an OLRE using the same approach?
>
>
> Mike Kucera
> Software Developer
> IBM CDT Team, Toronto
> mkucera@xxxxxxxxxx
>
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