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 ...{ncc, alberta}!myrias!mj