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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: PD lex & yacc for MS-DOS (and ST)
Summary: Not absolutely essential!
Message-ID: <1989Sep10.115547.26577@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 10 Sep 89 11:55:47 GMT
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Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <4515e338.14a1f@force.UUCP> covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) writes:
...	(quotes from Moshe Braner)
>
>	I have the same need for lex and yacc but for a different reason. There
>are many UNIX/C programs from the archives which require lex and/or yacc.
>and so, there are hard to port without having lex and/or yacc on the ST.

Lex and yacc generates C code, so you can always run them on a Unix box
and port the C code (which is very bulky) to any machine which has a C
compiler.  You need to write a couple of routines like yywrap(), but
these are pretty trivial (I think that yywrap() is the only function not
defined in the output C code, and it can be a do-nothing -- it is a
function loaded from llib.a if you don't write your own version).


-- 
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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