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From: jh@materna.uucp (Juergen Hackenbroich)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9,sub.os.os9
Subject: Flex on OS-9
Message-ID: <550@materna.uucp>
Date: 21 Sep 89 10:42:12 GMT
Reply-To: jh@materna.UUCP (Juergen Hackenbroich)
Organization: Dr.Materna GmbH, Dortmund
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Hallo,

I just tried to compile 'flex' on our os-9 machine, but I got
some problems...

1. I only managed to compile a version will accepts its own
scan.l but with \l instead of \n (*x/os-9). But this version
doesn't create a correct scanner, the output is not in the
correct order.
2. When correction the order of the output of (1) I can compile
the scanner but this time it doesn't accept scan.l because there
seem to be problems with determining end of line after end of rules.
3. When I kill some parts of scan.l the system crashes with '171:
E$DAMAGE'.

All this behaviour seems to me like a problem with internal data
structures. Some tables are of type short which is known to cause
some problems in os-9 compilers, but I didn't find any suspicous
statement.

Thanks for any hints,

hacki
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