mj@myrias.UUCP (Michal Jaegermann) (06/08/89)
Last night I spent some time playing with ST version of flex, which
was recently posted in comp.sys.binaries.atari.st. My input file was
rather simple, since it contained only one line - namely '%%'. All
different options seem to work as advertised, produced code looks
reasonably C like; and that where a problem starts. It looks like
that an author of the port gave us a "compiler killer" instead of a
lexical analyzer generator. On a created code Sozobon blew up almost
immediately with an addressing exception and without any message.
Alcyon choked on long macro names - since it quietly truncates them
to first 8 characaters. But even a manual intervention into the code,
in order to shorten these guys, didn't help very much. The compiler
got totally confused anyway, but did not crashed. (No, I did not really
think that it would work - on the other hand maybe I missed something).
At this moment I went to bed.
Any other experience with different ST compilers? Do we have any
prayer on this side of gcc? It was fun anyway. I do not remember ever
producing so many kilobytes of code so fast. :-)
Michal Jaegermann
Myrias Research Corporation
Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA
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