jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson) (06/27/90)
Thanks to everyone for your responses concerning my 32 K data segment problem and Bison/Flex. A number of you have pointed out that there is code in Flex that will read the parse tables from a resource file. This is great for Flex... the problem is that Flex ALWAYS generates C code parse tables (see the file gen.c) and as near as I can tell there is no switch that says "generate a resource file." This is really dumb because it means Flex is smart enough to read parse tables from resources but it isn't smart enough to generate parse table resources for applications that NEED these resources because of the 32K data segment problem. It's like selling someone a car in a country without roads. The car works fine but you just can't drive it anywhere. Looks like gen.c and flex.skel will have to be rewritten or am I overlooking something critical here?