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From: hall@cod.NOSC.MIL (Robert R. Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: FLEX : good news for the ST
Summary: FLEX: bad news for the IBM PC
Message-ID: <1568@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 29 Jun 89 15:10:13 GMT
References: <18666@louie.udel.EDU>
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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Why does MINIX need YAAC? Yes I had to use the UNIX version
to convert flex/parse.y in the the file parse.h and parse.c
for a one time pass but now it is done I intend to work with
the file parse.h and parse.c and delete the file parse.y.

I was able to get flex to compile and link using the Minix
C compiler but I can't get it to run, it runs out of stack
space. To get it to compile I had to make several identifiers
unique in the first 7 characters, otherwise the port was straight
forward.

MINIX> ls -l flex
-rwxr-xr-x  1 hall       57492 Jun 27 07:45 flex

MINIX> size flex
  text	  data	   bss	 stack	memory
 35344	 22116	 30558	 12862	100880	flex

MINIX> flex
flex: fatal internal error memory allocation failed in allocate_array()