gnu@vangogh.Berkeley.EDU (John Gilmore) (01/03/88)
In article <253@hub.ucsb.edu> Matt Wette, mwette%gauss@hub.ucsb.edu, writes: > ...EFL seems to be very buggy. Try a "do loop" with > the lower bound 0. I also encountered lots of problems with "write"'s. > My feeling is that this is probably not a well maintained piece of software > and I advise using caution with it. I just tried compiling efl with the GNU C compiler (ansi draft standard). The sources at UC Berkeley haven't been touched since 1982. The code assumes that C is a typeless language -- it declares all its pointers as "typedef int *ptr;"s and then references structure members with them. This does not work in ANSI C -- and shouldn't have in old C. I suspect that the code (or the mind of the author, Stu Feldman) was directly translated from BCPL. I'm wondering if anybody actually uses this beast, and/or if anyone has fixed it up so it passes "lint". If so, could you ship a copy to Keith Bostic at Berkeley (bostic@okeeffe.berkeley.edu)? I suspect it will be dropped from the releases unless somebody has either a working version or a strong need for it. John Gilmore {pyramid,ptsfa,amdahl,sun,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@toad.com "Watch me change my world..." -- Liquid Theatre