Here is what upstream says about that: "Switching to ANTLR 3 is a low priority because it does not bring any tangible advantages for the code but is going to take a lot of effort to rewrite all the grammars." At the origin of the problem, they embedded antlr source because they had to patch it to fix a bug.
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