raymund@sci.UUCP (01/27/87)
Our news has been a little spotty lately so I may have missed part of this discussion . The following are problems you'll find when using lettuce 3.03 and blink to compile vc: The lettuce "CXERR: 25" was caused by register declarations inside of a switch/case statement in the function "eval". That is easy enough to fix. Change the register declarations to ints. double eval(e) register struct enode *e; { ...... switch (e->op) { ...... case O_REDUCE('a'): { register r,c; /* dies here */ register maxr, maxc; /* dies here */ register minr, minc; /* dies here */ ...... } } Blink complaining about variables being defined in multiple files can be remedied by using Alink (ouch!) instead. It is only a warning with Alink. Another problem you'll find is that lettuce doesn't know what to do with the following type of printf statement: printf("lattice cant handle this %*.*f",int1,int2,floatnum); Lettuce (3.03) prints the "*". The printf problem can be fixed by sprintf'ing the format string into a temporary string before calling printf. Pass the temporary string to printf as the format string. After hacking around all of these problems, I was left with a partially working spreadsheet with a minimum muber of bell and whistles that was extremely slow to update the screen. Next time around, I'm going to buy the MANX compiler. - Ray Galvin