I have an antlr generated Java parser that uses the C target and it works quite well. The problem is I also want it to parse erroneous code and produce a meaningful AST. If I feed it a minimal Java class with one import after which a semicolon is missing it produces two "Tree Error Node" objects where the "import" token and the tokens for the imported class should be.

But since it parses the following code correctly and produces the correct nodes for this code it must recover from the error by adding the semicolon or by resyncing. Is there a way to make antlr reflect this fixed input it produces internally in the AST? Or can I at least get the tokens/text that produced the "Tree Node Errors" somehow?

In the C targets antlr3commontreeadaptor.c around line 200 the following fragment indicates that the C target only creates dummy error nodes so far:

static  pANTLR3_BASE_TREE
errorNode                               (pANTLR3_BASE_TREE_ADAPTOR adaptor,   pANTLR3_TOKEN_STREAM ctnstream, pANTLR3_COMMON_TOKEN startToken, pANTLR3_COMMON_TOKEN stopToken, pANTLR3_EXCEPTION e)
{
    // Use the supplied common tree node stream to get another tree from the factory
    // TODO: Look at creating the erronode as in Java, but this is complicated by the
    // need to track and free the memory allocated to it, so for now, we just
    // want something in the tree that isn't a NULL pointer.
    //
    return adaptor->createTypeText(adaptor, ANTLR3_TOKEN_INVALID, (pANTLR3_UINT8)"Tree Error Node");
}

Am I out of luck here and only the error nodes the Java target produces would allow me to retrieve the text of the erroneous nodes?